A cheerful and colorful marketing campaign to create a festive meal that’s sure to be hot evil Carefully avoiding a very important fact. It was that time evil It opens on November 22nd, but that’s only half the story. This is just “Part One,” although it’s not called that, with “Part Two” coming a year later. Knowing this, one might expect the film version to be a more manageable length, especially since it’s based on a long-running, mega-popular Broadway musical, which itself clocks in at just under three hours . But apparently, that’s not the case.
Tickets are evil It’s not on sale yet, but the film can be found on ticketing site Fandango, where it lists the runtime at 2 hours and 40 minutes. The AMC Theaters page says the same thing, but it’s worth noting that Moviefone says 2 hours and 22 minutes. io9 has reached out to Universal to find out the correct runtime, and we will update this article if/when we hear back.
Let’s assume the show is 2 hours and 40 minutes long, almost exactly the same length as the entire Broadway show. The performance is 2 hours and 45 minutes, including intermission. So somehow, this movie version – even at two hours and 22 minutes – essentially doubles the length of the story.
Now, you fully expect it to be at least a little longer. Film adaptations of musicals can delve deeper into the characters and world, almost always have an extra song or two, etc. So for sure, you know each movie won’t be split in half in a 1:1 ratio. It’s never 90 minutes. But almost twice that would be crazy.
There is also a small problem that most people consider the first half of evil Clearly better than the second one, mostly because it has more upbeat, exciting, pop-oriented songs. will evil The first part was great and then everyone waited a year for a worse but still long ending? This is certainly possible.
Regardless, there must be someone who thinks that, at almost the same length as the show, evil Here’s the full story. These people probably won’t be happy when the credits roll in November, unless of course the movie is that good. Frankly, that’s what we were hoping for.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, based on the musical with lyrics and music by Stephen Schwartz, and a book written by Winnie Holzman (screenwriter), evil Starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bird, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keith La Settle and Peter Dinklage. Opening on November 22nd.
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