Evil Fans don’t have to wait to I long to return to the wonderful land of Oz.

The second film in Jon M. Chu’s two-part adaptation of the popular Broadway musical is scheduled to hit theaters on November 21, 2025, almost exactly a year later Evil was released. Evil: Part Two The Witches of Oz, Ariana Grande’s Galinda – aka Glinda, the Good Witch – and Cynthia Erivo’s Elphaba – aka the Wicked Witch of the West – continue the story that began with the first film.

Evilwhich hit theaters on November 22nd, had the highest opening for a musical adaptation with an estimated $114 million at the domestic box office. (Despite an unconfirmed online rumor, Grande and Erivo were paid equally for their stunning lead roles.) The films are based on the 2003 musical of the same name, which was originally based on the best-selling novel by Gregory Maguire.

Evil tells the untold story of the Witches of Oz. Winnie Holzman, the stage production’s author, co-wrote the screenplay for Chu’s film with Dana Fox. Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz adapted the musical for the screen. Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth created the roles of Elphaba and Glinda on Broadway (and they appeared in surprise appearances during the “One Short Day” sequence).

Evil ended with Erivo’s impressive performance of the stage show’s most famous musical number, “Defying Gravity.” Since “Defying Gravity” was the end of the first act of the Broadway show, this is the case Evil The ending helped realize Chu’s vision of splitting Act 1 and Act 2 into separate films.

Chus Evil stayed true to the stage musical and changed little if at all the overall plot of the story. Although there is no official confirmation yet on how exactly the second film’s plot will match the second act of the series, Chu spoke to The Hollywood Reporter before the film’s release to provide insight into his vision.

“We knew we didn’t want to separate the film from the series to the point where it was no longer the series I loved,” he said of the film’s creation process. “We started talking about: What numbers can you reduce to achieve it? And the amount of numbers you have to reduce to tell that story is just not plausible. You want all the songs, so you stop dancing. Which? Tell me which one and we’ll do it. It just became very clear that we had to make a choice. We went back and forth, do we make a three and a half hour film that leaves all of these things out? Do we do one thing at a time? And when we make one film at a time, we have to make sure that film is emotionally fulfilling so that it doesn’t feel like we’re stuck in the middle of the story. … We all agreed we would split it up.”

He continued: “And we felt that this space was necessary. Because if you, I don’t know, maybe end with “Defying Gravity,” let’s say, then you have Elphaba, which has to be the most defining moment of her life. So then you have to set up Elphaba more than maybe the show does. You need to see what her childhood was like. …And how do you build this friendship? In the film medium, things are so quick to call nonsense that you have to have the time and space to believe in this relationship. And you have a Galinda narrator who wraps everything up and sets things up for the second film. All of those things are just a lot, and I think we found a nice balance in that.”

Chu and the team shot both films together. “We shot both films over 160 days and were stopped 10 days before completing (due to the strike) our ‘Defying Gravity’ and flying days,” he said THR.

The team completed the 10-day production earlier this year. Since the films were shot together, the cast of both films remains the same.

EvilThe second act takes a darker turn than the bright, poppy moments of the first act. “Defying Gravity” serves as the moment in both the stage musical and the film when Elphaba “transforms” into the Wicked Witch of the West. Wizard of Oz Fans know, with the added context, that the wizard and her mentor, Madame Morrible, played in the film by Jeff Goldblum and Michelle Yeoh respectively, branded her “evil” after she refused to help with their plan, to take away the rights of the animals in Oz. Elphaba and Glinda, who became friends despite all odds in the first act and the first film, go their separate ways when Elphaba decides to go against the Wizards rebel and Glinda is left behind.

This is how the story continues in the stage musical: Spoiler alert for new moviegoers!

Act 2 takes place parallel to the events of the original Wizard of Oz. It begins with Glinda, now officially called Glinda the Good, and Fiyero, portrayed by Jonathan Bailey, now Captain of the Wizard’s Guard, speaking to the public of Oz as officials of the Wizard. Morrible, telling a completely untrue account of the series’ first act finale, announces that Fiyero and Glinda are engaged to calm a crowd worried about the evil witch. Fiyero still cares for Elphaba and leaves due to the crowd’s terrible comments.

Elphaba visits her sister Nessarose, played by Marissa Bode in the film, who has become governor of Munchkinland. Nessa has revoked the Munchkins’ right to make Boq, played by Ethan Slater in the film, stay with her. Elphaba enchants her mother’s jeweled shoes, allowing Nessa to walk, but Boq still rejects her. A failed spell that Nessa attributes to Elphaba turns Boq into the Tin Man.

The wizard offers Elphaba another chance to join his cause, but she rejects him and Fiyero helps her escape the wizard, leaving Glinda behind. Finally the two confess their love for each other. Morrible and the wizard hatch a plan to endanger Nessarose and get Elphaba’s attention. This causes Morrible to trigger the tornado in the Wizard of Oz, which brings Dorothy to Oz and kills Nessarose, also known as the Wicked Witch of the East.

Glinda and Elphaba reunite and argue over Glinda giving Nessa’s shoes to the girl Dorothy who has arrived in Oz. Eventually, the couple reconcile after Glinda warns Elphaba of the plan to kill her with the powerful musical number “For Good.” Elphaba is seemingly melted by a bucket of water and ends up in the Wizard of Oz. Glinda tells that the Wizard Elphaba was his daughter, she drove him out of Oz and arrested Morrible for her plan to kill Nessarose. Fiyero, who was transformed into the Scarecrow after trying to help Elphaba earlier in the show, returns to the site of the melting, frees Elphaba from a trapdoor, and the two run away together.

Dorothy and her crew are briefly seen in Evilis the first part of the film, only from behind and in the trailer talking to the magician. The character of the Wizard of Oz is depicted from behind or in silhouette and never explicitly appears in the stage musical.

In advance Evil (Part Two) will be in cinemas on November 21, 2025, THR I will update this post as more information about the second film emerges.