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Fans customized the Wicked movie poster to more closely match the original Broadway poster.

Original Broadway Poster:

Movie poster:

Some fans, disappointed by the poster, altered it to be closer to the original, moving Grande’s hand and lowering the brim of Erivo’s hat to cover her eyes. The edits prompted Erivo to respond. “This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

“None of this is funny. None of it is cute. It degrades me. It degrades us,” Erivo continued. “The original poster is an ILLUSTRATION. I am a real life human being, who chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes.”

So, this seems like a completely reasonable reaction to fans making fan content.

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[–] 5in1k@lemm.ee 31 points 5 hours ago

If that’s the most offensive thing they have seen they live a charmed life.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 30 points 7 hours ago

Stolen from reddit

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 7 hours ago

Huh. This is why you need a PR team.

[–] stewie3128@lemm.ee 58 points 11 hours ago

The ego and vanity is astounding. And the movie poster sucks because she's looking straight at the camera.

[–] rothaine@beehaw.org 20 points 12 hours ago

In the original Broadway poster and the fan edit, it looks like they're up to something--there's some mischievousness at play, some wickedness.

I don't really know what the full-face one is supposed to convey.

[–] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 19 points 13 hours ago

Totally proportionate reaction.

[–] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 40 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Bit of an overreaction if you ask me

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 14 points 6 hours ago

Theatre kids gonna theatre

[–] kshade@lemmy.world 43 points 17 hours ago

This is the wildest, most offensive thing I have seen

Congratulations I guess?

[–] nobody158@sh.itjust.works 61 points 19 hours ago

Imo the fan one is better. They should have done the red lipstick with a smirk rather than green and looking bored.

[–] glimse@lemmy.world 24 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

I read the text before the post title and thought it was some witchymemes joke rant about people stereotyping witches which would have been kinda funny. A shame that she's serious.

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[–] scbasteve7@lemm.ee 88 points 22 hours ago (13 children)

If it was her decision that her full face should be on display, the backlash should be evidence enough that someone else gets paid to make those decisions, not her.

The original looks boring. She has absolutely no emotions on her face. There's no mystique, no 'wickedness'. Even the composition looks like something a high schooler in Photoshop class would make.

The edit isn't perfect either. But at least it pays homage to the original in more than just image. It adds that mystique back, and makes her look more menacing.

What it truly boils down to is ego. Although the edit is better, and so many people agree on it, it doesn't show her full face. And she can't let that go.

[–] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 39 points 22 hours ago

Guaranteed this whole thing came up before that it didn't match the style. She showed her cards and now makes it sound like she was the one who pushed against matching the original. Now that the fans see it and dislike it (probably like they warned that fans would), she's mad about it. It really sounds like she pushed for this design so it wouldn't hide her face and now she's furious that fans reacted in the exact way that was predicted.

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[–] realcaseyrollins@thelemmy.club 18 points 18 hours ago

One thing I've noticed over time is that people in Hollywood are pretty normal.

/s

[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 43 points 22 hours ago

Nerve status: Struck

As we all know snapping at the fans, especially over matters of source material accuracy, always works out well for everyone involved in the making of the adaptation.

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