Wicked and Gladiator 2 have develop into the web’s new Barbenheimer, as the 2 films now share the identical launch date.
Universal’s movie adaptation of the hit Broadway musical Wicked not too long ago had its launch date pulled ahead to November 22, the identical day as director Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2 comes out, and it did not take lengthy for the web to see a golden alternative for the 2 films to be watched back-to-back as an unlikely double characteristic.
The viral sensation that was Barbenheimer celebrated the same-day launch of Greta Gerwig’s Barbie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer final yr, and it appears cinemagoers are attempting to recreate one other two-movie marathon with memes, mash-ups, and extra surfacing on-line as individuals make plans for Wicked and Gladiator 2.
me and the ladies going from gladiator 2 to depraved on november 22 pic.twitter.com/DJCmAKcidV
— zoë rose bryant (@zoerosebryant) July 1, 2024
me exhibiting as much as the theatre on November 22 for a Wicked Gladiator double header#PumpRules #VanderpumpRules pic.twitter.com/SWKqSAr5w1
— T (@teewatterss) July 1, 2024
Wicked and Gladiator 2 popping out on the identical day pic.twitter.com/mDlIhK1ugm
— Ryan Aguirre (@aguirreryan) July 2, 2024
5 tickets for GLADIATOR 2 and WICKED please pic.twitter.com/ktc4ldkROI
— shea (@sheanorling) July 2, 2024
Me on November 22 once I double characteristic Wicked & Gladiator 2: pic.twitter.com/jJ3cG0h7Me
— Jillian🫧 (@JillianChili) July 1, 2024
Wicked & Gladiator 2 popping out on the identical day: pic.twitter.com/giSrm0aiN6
— Jillian🫧 (@JillianChili) July 1, 2024
Barbenheimer, after all, is a portmanteau of Barbie and Oppenheimer, however the nickname for the most recent cinematic double invoice is proving somewhat trickier for individuals to agree on. There has been every part from “Gladicked” to “Glicked” urged, however “Wickiator” appears to be the best choice and the one the bulk are going with.
“This Thanksgiving, put together to get GLADICKED down” https://t.co/6EoTW8Gbwb
— Will Mavity (@mavericksmovies) July 1, 2024
Gladiator 2 & Wicked being launched the identical day = Wickedator 😂💀 https://t.co/U36u6C33eP
— Christian Cortave (@CCortave24) July 2, 2024
Okay I’m throwing out names:
-Wickiator
-Gladicked
-Widiator
-Glicked#Wicked #Gladiator2 pic.twitter.com/QGMP8U6LPc— Kyle Arking 🟧(he/him) (@ArkingKyle) July 1, 2024
okay depraved and gladiator are releasing on the identical day how are we branding this – i believe it’s “Wickiator”
— ⪽mily (@culturedemily) July 1, 2024
Barbenheimer walked so Wickiator might run https://t.co/xdbxROzysM
— Kristin (@Kristin_Stahlke) July 1, 2024
Wickiator hive!!!!! pic.twitter.com/cNrXNs7ePc
— Rachel Leishman (@RachelLeishman) July 2, 2024
Wicked, the musical fantasy movie concerning the witches of Oz, stars Cynthia Erivo as Elphaba, a younger girl misunderstood due to her uncommon emerald-green pores and skin who has but to find her true energy, and Ariana Grande as Glinda, a bubbly blonde gilded by privilege and ambition, who has but to find her true coronary heart.
Gladiator 2, then again, returns to Rome a number of a long time after the occasions of its predecessor, with a narrative that focuses on Paul Mescal’s Lucius, Connie Nielsen’s son from the primary movie who’s now an grownup and able to struggle as a current set of first-look pictures noticed him go up towards Pedro Pascal’s Roman common Marcus Acacius.
Wicked and Gladiator 2 each arrive in theaters on November 22 — the identical month as Paddington in Peru, Moana 2, and extra.
Adele Ankers-Range is a contract leisure author for IGN. You can comply with her on X/Twitter here.
