WICKED: PART TWO Gets Official Title Change Paying Homage to One of the Second Act's Best Songs

Wicked: Part One was released last month to a huge response from fans and critics alike. Though many of us knew it was going to be a two-parter, as the stage musical is broken into to parts, and there’s a lore behind the story to build upon, it’s nice that the films were basically shot back to back so we don’t have to wait too long.

We will see the second film next Thanksgiving, and this week we got the surprise news that the second film will not just be known as “Part Two,” but Wicked: For Good.

The title is a nod to the duet “For Good,” from the second act of the musical, performed by Elphaba and Glinda. It’s one of the best songs in the show, and it is the culmination of the two characters’ paths having crossed, and their lives having woven together.

Jon M. Chu directed the two-part Wicked extravaganza, which stars Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Yeoh and Jonathan Bailey. Set before, during and after The Wizard of Oz, the story tells the origins of Grande’s Galinda (later known as Glinda the Good) and Erivo’s Elphaba (eventually dubbed the Wicked Witch of the West) before Dorothy landed in Oz and sauntered down the Yellow Brick Road.

Part One depicts Glinda and Elphaba’s time together at Shiz University, where they are forced to be roommates and eventually become besties. The second movie picks up after Elphaba is fully in control of her powers and has been declared an enemy of the state by the Wizard (Goldblum) and Madame Morrible (Yeoh).

Chu teased the second half of the Ozian story, telling Variety that the follow-up film is “a doozy” — at least emotionally speaking.

“I did not know the context of where we’d be in society right now. It becomes eight times more relevant than before when you’re talking about truth and consequences of making the right or wrong choices,” he said. “It’s intense.”

Wicked: For Good will open in theaters on November 21, 2025.