'Wicked' The Musical Movie Adaptation Looking To Cast 'Glee' Alum Lea Michelle And 'One Direction' Hunk Harry Style As Lead Stars?

One of the famous Broadway musical is about to get a movie adaptation!

"Wicked" is reportedly having its own movie and according to reports "Glee" star Lea Michelle and "One Direction" hunk Harry Styles are going to lead the cast.

"Lea thought she'd be a shoo-in for Wicked, but now Idina may get it because she's hot after singing Frozen's hit song."

However, both Michelle and Styles have yet to comments about the news.

Meanwhile, "Let It Go" hitmaker Idina Menzel - who's famous for playing Elphaba in the Broadway Musical - shared her thoughts about the upcoming movie adaptation.

Reportedly, the Tony awardee is "too old" to play the coveted role, but she's still willing to do the project if asked.

Upon talking to Digital Spy, Menzel quipped that she will probably portray the "mother" of Elphaba.

"Yeah, as the mother of Elphaba."

"I would die to be in [the film], except I'm afraid Kristin [Chenoweth] and I... they told us we're a little over the age for that," she added.

"If I could be a part of it in some way, that would be great. But I already feel like I received - and continue to receive - the gifts from Wicked and how it affects audiences," Menzel added.

In addition, Stephen Schwartz - composer of "Wicked" - talked to Vulture where he admitted that the origin story of "Wizard of Oz" has "started gearing up" for its movie adaptation.

"We're starting to do some work on it," Schwartz revealed of Wicked The Musical movie adaptation. "We've actually started gearing up on it a little bit."

"I don't know exactly how many years away it is," Schwartz said, but he did say that he's very optimistic about the movie adaptation and that his creative team are already thinking about what to consider in order to do so.

"What are we going to change?" Schwartz said. "What are we going to keep? How do you use a whole new language and medium to tell the story? [We can] really look at it again and say, 'Oh, we can do this, and we've always wanted to do that and we couldn't onstage, but we can in a movie.' We're actually having a blast."

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