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A movie adaptation of the Wicked musical is finally happening! The movie will hit theaters December 2021, Universal announced today.

Something Wicked this way comes: a film adaptation based on the book and the outrageously successful musical is scheduled for 2016.

While attending San Diego Comic-Con, Universal has announced that Billy Elliot and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close director Stephen Daldry will bring the Broadway musical to the big screen.

Purely for the sake of discussion, here are three other names that Lionsgate considered to helm Catching Fire.

One of the last Oscar-contenders for 2011 that remains to be seen is Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, the 9/11 drama based off the book by Jonathan Safran Foer. A second trailer for the film has now been released, take a look at it after the break.

The first official trailer for Stephen Daldry’s (The Reader) adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, has been released. The film stars Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan), Sandra Bullock (The Blind Side), and newcomer Thomas Horn, check out the trailer after the break.