Depraved: For Good is now in theaters, and chances are you’ll be questioning why they determined to separate the film into two separate movies being launched one 12 months aside.

Stephen Schwartz, the composer behind the fan-favorite musical, beforehand shared the explanation why the Jon M. Chu movie was made to have two elements, regardless of it clearly being a one-part present that has performed on Broadway for over a decade.

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“We discovered it very tough to get previous ‘Defying Gravity’ with no break,” he as soon as advised fan publication The Schwartz Scene. “That music is written particularly to deliver a curtain down, and no matter scene to comply with it with no break simply appeared vastly anti-climactic.”

“The reality is we tried for a while to make it one film, even when it needed to be one very lengthy film,” he added. “However we stored working into two issues. The primary is that whilst a really lengthy single film, it required us chopping or omitting issues that we wished to incorporate and that we predict followers of the present and the story will admire.” The second cause, as he defined it, got here all the way down to the show-stopper quantity, and the shortcoming for what comes originally of Act 2 to flee its gravitational pull.

“So, for these two causes,” Schwartz continued, “plus the joy of doing one thing that’s by no means been executed earlier than with a musical, we now have determined to do two films. In fact, when it’s all executed, if it doesn’t work that method, we’ll must determine one thing out. However we strongly consider that that is what’s greatest for our story, our present, and our followers.”

Moreover, he added “What we now have mentioned is that adjustments must be ‘additive,’ to make use of (producer) Marc Platt’s time period. They should add one thing to the story or the characters. They will’t simply be adjustments to do one thing completely different. I really feel assured that by the point the film is made, if all of us proceed to have the identical diploma of enter, I might have a dialog with anybody who has a query about any of the adjustments made out of the stage present and justify why I believe it’s higher for the film.”

See what the long run seems to be like for the Depraved franchise.