Filmmaker Adam McKay — best known for making films like Anchorman with Will Ferrell — came unglued on Twitter, suggesting the movie musical Wicked is all about radicalization and fascism, so “If America keeps going on the track it is I wouldn’t be surprised to see the movie banned in 3-5 years.”
At #3 on the list of top-grossing 2024 movies — after Inside Out 2 and Deadpool and Wolverine — Wicked hit theaters in November and grossed over a half-billion dollars, easily surpassing its $145 million budget. It’s the first installment of a two-parter.
“On a pure storytelling level Wicked Part 1 is right up there as one of the most radical big studio Hollywood movies ever made,” McKay posted on X. He added, “I know Part 2 swings back to the center a bit but Part 1 is nakedly about radicalization in the face of careerism, fascism, propaganda.“
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