After more than two decades as one of Broadway fans’ most beloved musicals, Wicked finally got the live-action film treatment last year — but the journey down the Yellow Brick Road is only halfway complete.

Starring Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande as the project’s iconic leading ladies — Elphaba and Glinda, respectfully — Jon M. Chu’s Wicked Part 1 finally hit theaters after about three years of production and promotional buildup on Nov. 22, 2024, bringing in historic box-office numbers and becoming the top-grossing film based on a Broadway musical on record. Its soundtrack of fresh takes on Stephen Schwartz’s original 2003 stage score debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, the highest-ever opening for a stage-to-screen adaptation.

After seeing the first installment, however, fans were immediately impatient for more. Still half of the Ozian tale — inspired by Gregory Maguire’s Wicked novel about the origin stories of the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good — remained to be told in Part 2, which Universal Pictures announced in December 2024 would officially be titled Wicked: For Good. Luckily, the sequel is poised to be well worth the wait; when Chu first announced that the adaptation would be split into two parts in April 2022, the director wrote on X, “With more space, we can tell the story of Wicked as it was meant to be told while bringing even more depth and surprise to the journeys of these beloved characters.”

Though much of Part 2 has been kept under wraps, Universal Pictures and Chu — as well as Grande, Erivo and Schwartz — have divulged a handful of precious details about the finale for fans to pore over as they wait for premiere day. From its release date to additions to the soundtrack, keep reading to see everything Billboard knows about Wicked: For Good.