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

Original Broadway Poster:

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Movie poster:

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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.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech
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    19 hours ago

    As a white person I'm definitely not the one to say if that's bad or not - but yeah that would be 100% a teaching moment - because I am not aware of anything like that. Instead of slamming down the hammer of "most offensive thing I've ever seen" for what I can only see as a fan poster that's mimicing one that already exists she could have said something like "I understand why they did this, but here is why I disagree with it". Personally as a fan of wicked, I was disappointed by the poster. Not enough to make my own, but the original poster was iconic to me.

    • bigbrowncommie69 [any]
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      19 hours ago

      Agreed. And the biggest issue for me with the official poster is the lack of vibrancy. It's the drab "serious adult reboot" colours for some reason.