The franchise took a break until 2011's Tom and Jerry & The Wizard of Oz, which holds a more positive 65% on Rotten Tomatoes. Then, 2013 saw the release of Oz the Great and Powerful, which has 56%.

Those Wicked Witches of the West have little in common with the one that L. Frank Baum created in his 1900 children's classic, "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz." Baum's witch wasn't green, for starters.

Actually, Baum didn't seem much interested in The Wicked Witch of the West. "She only appears in one chapter," Shanower said. "And she's not an important character after the first book.

It's the "Wizard of Oz" prequel that became a smash hit musical and is now an Oscar-winning movie. Here's how to watch "Wicked" online and from anywhere in the world.

The "Wicked: For Good" trailer teases Glinda's wedding and features Dorothy. The first trailer for "Wicked: For Good," which was released on June 4, shares many plot points from the second act of ...

I couldn’t help but ponder all of that as I watched the Wicked Witch of the West torment Dorothy and co. because the Elphaba we met in the first part of Wicked wouldn’t do that.

The movie tie-in edition of 'Wicked' by Gregory Maguire. William Morrow The first novel in Maguire’s "Wicked Years" series follows Elphaba, long before she became the Wicked Witch of the West.

While Wicked explores how the Wicked Witch and Glinda came to be who they are in The Wizard of Oz, it’s not exactly a prequel due to the timeline.

Maguire’s “Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West” came out in 1995. Maguire, known for his fairytale reimaginings, eventually wrote an entire series based on Elphaba and ...

“As a result of her Otherness,” Burger concludes. “the Wicked Witch can — and, in fact, must — be destroyed.” By 1939, however, her Otherness was symbolized by her odd skin color.