Aspiring Glindas and Elphabas across the nation are putting their differences aside and joining forces to ask that James Corden be kept as far away from Oz as possible. A change.org petition demanding that Corden be left out of Universal’s Wicked movie launched over the weekend, and has amassed more than 34,000 signatures and counting.
The request is quite simple: “James Corden in no way shape or form should be in or near the production of Wicked the movie…that’s pretty much it.”
Wicked movie casting has been the talk of the town since it was announced that Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande would star as Elphaba and Glinda, respectively, in Jon M. Chu’s film adaptation of the smash hit Broadway musical. Whether they’ve been cast in the right parts, however, is still up for debate.
Corden, meanwhile, has indeed appeared in almost every major movie musical that has been made in the last several years, starting with his turn as the Baker in Into the Woods (2014). Since then, the Tony winner has played Bustopher Jones in Cats (2019), Barry Glickman in The Prom (2020), and, most recently, a mouse named James (?) in Amazon’s Cinderella (2021). In his various movie-musical roles, the Late Late Show host has earned reviews ranging from the positive (Variety called him “very appealing” in Into the Woods) to the very negative (Vanity Fair called his Golden Globe–nominated performance in The Prom “insulting”) to the disastrous—though, to be fair to him, nobody got out of Cats unscathed.
Representatives for Corden did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But perhaps luckily for Wicked fans, it’s hard to conceive of which part Corden would play in the Wicked movie in the first place. He’s too young to play the sage Wizard, and too old to play romantic lead Fiyero or Munchkin Boq. That leaves one principal character in Wicked that Corden could potentially get his hands on: Doctor Dillamond. So if you don’t want to see James Corden play a talking goat with a Ph.D. who sings the worst song in Wicked—that would be “Something Bad”—you know where to sign.
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