Fun, colorful marketing for a sure holiday hit They are not bad you have touched on a very important truth. That’s when They are not bad will hit theaters on November 22, with half the story to go. This is “Part One,” or as it may be called, “Part Two” comes a year later. Knowing that, one would expect the film version to be a manageable length, especially since it’s based on a long-running, wildly popular Broadway musical that itself runs under three hours. But, apparently, it is not.
Tickets for They are not bad are not yet sold out but the film has found its way onto the ticketing site, Fandango, with a running time of two hours and 40 minutes. The AMC Theaters page says the same—however, Moviefone says it’s two hours and 22 minutes. io9 has reached out to Universal to see what the correct runtime is and will update this post if/when we hear back.
Assuming it’s two hours and 40 minutes, that’s about the same length as an entire Broadway show. The show, give or take, runs for two hours and 45 minutes with an intermission. So in a way this movie version—even though it’s two hours and 22 minutes—basically doubles the length of the story.
Now, you fully expect it to take at least a little longer. A musical movie adaptation can delve deeper into the characters and the world, almost always with an extra song or two, etc. Therefore, you find that each movie is not divisible by 1:1. It wouldn’t be 90 minutes. But being almost twice that is wild.
There is also a small issue that many people consider the first part of it They are not bad to be much better than the second one, mainly because it has fun, exciting and popular songs. Will They are not bad the first half was amazing and then everyone waits a year for the low but still very long ending? Of course it is possible.
Either way, there are sure to be people who think that, in height, they are almost as good as the show, They are not bad it’s the full story. Those people may not be happy when the credits roll in November unless, of course, the movie is that good. And frankly, that’s what we expect.
Directed by Jon M. Chu, based on the musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz and a book by Winnie Holzman (who wrote the script), They are not bad stars Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande, Michelle Yeoh, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, Ethan Slater, Marissa Bode, Bowen Yang, Bronwyn James, Keala Settle, and Peter Dinklage. Opens November 22.
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