Todd also recalled that Whoopi Goldberg's company was simultaneously vying for the rights—"but I really wanted it,” she said. It was Woolverton who first imagined the film as a musical.

Let's take the yellow brick road to the Wicked movie that might have been ... telling that outlet that Whoopi Goldberg "had expressed an interest in the first six months." ...

with Goldberg’s publicist confirming: “This is true. Whoopi loved the book and tried hard to get the rights.” With Platt and Todd attached as producers, the “Wicked” movie next went into ...

Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicole Kidman were just a few of the stars considered to star in a film version of Wicked in the mid-1990s. Find out who else was circling the movie. The ...