#fan-shipping

#fan-shipping

In a popular recent movie, two protagonists work together as partners in a police department. They have very different personalities: The man is cynical, quick with a quip, always in a loose tie and a tucked-in shirt. The woman is earnest, mission-driven, persistent, idealistic. They are past their meet-cute and their first adventure together and into a consolidating phase of their relationship, when they will decide whether the chemistry they felt in the first blush of encountering one another signifies something real.

Jon M Chu's version of the stage musical - which itself was based on Gregory Maguire's revisionist Wizard of Oz novel - stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, who becomes known as the Wicked Witch of the West, and Ariana Grande as Galinda, later Glinda, the Good Witch. When the first part of the two-film adaption was released in November 2024 it smashed box office records and tracks from the movie rocketed up the music charts.