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Gregory: I started getting movie offers for Wicked within a week of its publication, because it had a glorious top of the fold, front page review in the Los Angeles Times book section. They called it an“ instant classic.” Whoopi Goldberg asked about the rights, Laurie Metcalf asked, Claire Danes asked, Demi Moore asked, and a few others. We decided to go with Demi Moore because she already had a working relationship with Universal Pictures. Universal optioned it and worked for a couple of years on a script that they didn’ t like, and frankly, I didn’ t like either. But I had adopted three children from overseas, and the purchase price for a film, once greenlit, would have been enough to help me mostly or fully pay off my mortgage. I was ready to plug my nose, put blindfolds on, and sign that contract— but the film studio wasn’ t ready to put millions of dollars into a script they didn’ t think was all that powerful.
Stephen Schwartz then came upon the book about a year and a half after it was published, referred to it by his friend Holly Near, the folk singer. They were snorkeling together in Hawaii, and apparently,
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