{"id":1742,"date":"2012-07-14T21:47:48","date_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:47:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2012-07-14T21:48:45","modified_gmt":"2012-07-15T04:48:45","slug":"stephen-daldry-billy-elliot-director-may-direct-the-wicked-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/stephen-daldry-billy-elliot-director-may-direct-the-wicked-film\/","title":{"rendered":"Stephen Daldry, Billy Elliot Director May Direct the \u2018Wicked\u2019 Film"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tony winner Stephen Daldry<\/strong>, director of Billy Elliot: The Musical, is now the frontrunner to direct Universal\u2019s big screen adaptation of the blockbuster musical Wicked, according to Deadline.com. Directors previously rumored to helm the project include Ryan Murphy, Rob Marshall, J.J. Abrams and James Mangold. No casting or start date for the project have been announced. <\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><div id=\"attachment_1743\" style=\"width: 386px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-on-tour.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stephen-daldry.jpg\" alt=\"Stephen Daldry in Talks to Direct Wicked Film\" title=\"Stephen Daldry in Talks to Direct Wicked Film\" width=\"376\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1743\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stephen-daldry.jpg 376w, http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/stephen-daldry-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 376px) 100vw, 376px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1743\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Daldry in Talks to Direct Wicked Film<\/p><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Wicked musical opened on October 30, 2003 and won three Tony Awards. A reimagining of the classic The Wizard of Oz, Wicked spotlights the untold stories of two of Oz\u2019s most famous characters, the Wicked Witch of the West and her unlikely friend, Glinda the Good. <\/p>\n<p>The Broadway production of Wicked currently stars Jackie Burns as Elphaba, Chandra Lee Schwartz as Glinda, Richard H. Blake as Fiyero, Randy Danson as Madame Morrible and Adam Grupper as The Wizard. <strong>Wicked is currently touring in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-san-diego-ca-tickets.html\">San Diego, CA<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/wicked-ottawa-on-tickets.html\">Ottawa, ON Canada<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tony winner Stephen Daldry, director of Billy Elliot: The Musical, is now the frontrunner to direct Universal\u2019s big screen adaptation of the blockbuster musical Wicked, according to Deadline.com. Directors previously rumored to helm the project include Ryan Murphy, Rob Marshall, J.J. Abrams and James Mangold. No casting or start date for the project have been [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[397,212,210,164],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1745,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions\/1745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wickedthemusicalticketsonline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}