In a wicked move, a petition has been launched to exclude the late night host from the cast of the eagerly awaited film adaptation of “Wicked”.
This comes on the heels of recent casting news that singer/actress Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo ready to star In the big screen version of the beloved musical.
Petition on Change.org Reads “James Corden must in no way shape or form in or around the making of the Wicked Movie. That’s all.”
As of Monday evening, it had over 50,000 signatures.
Corden has a really close relationship with the Broadway community and won a Tony Award in 2012 for his performance in “One Man, Two Guiners.”
“Cats”, which also featured Taylor Swift, Idris Elba and Dame Judi Dench, was considered such a bomb that the original music’s producer Andrew Lloyd Webber has said. he bought a dog How To Deal With “Off-The-Scale All Wrong” He Found It.
CNN has reached out to Corden’s reps for comment.
A previous version of this story incorrectly stated that Corden won a Tony Award for his performance in “The History Boys”. This was for his performance in “One Man, Two Guiners”.
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