Director Adam McKay Warns 'Wicked' Could Be 'Banned' In Years Ahead
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McKay suggested that Jon M. Chu’s “radical” movie may become unavailable if “America keeps going on the track it is.”
Adam McKay is warning that the latest movie from fellow filmmaker Jon M. Chu could soon be “banned.”
“Wicked,” the first installment in what is set to be a two-part series, “is right up there as one of the most radical big studio Hollywood movies ever made,” McKay wrote Monday on X, formerly Twitter, saying that it is “nakedly about radicalization in the face of careerism, fascism, propaganda.”
In a follow-up post, the “Don’t Look Up” director compared Chu’s 2024 film — set in the fictional world of “The Wizard of Oz” — to Hollywood classics he sees as similar, including “The Bridge on the River Kwai,” “The Sound of Music,” “The Searchers” and “Citizen Kane.”
“Hunger Games. That’s a big one,” he added as he mulled other major movies that could be seen as radical, calling it “incredibly left wing.”
“What’s really striking about Wicked Part 1 is that it’s coming out NOW when America has never been more right wing and propagandized,” McKay argued, while conceding that “part of the timing is a coincidence” since the film was based on older source material.
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