For Good. Director Jon M. Chu believes changing the title to reflect a phrase in the script was the right decision. “Who wants a movie called Wicked: Part Two?” Chu said at the National Board of Review Awards.

“ Wicked: Part Two’s” official title, “Wicked: For Good,” prompted some mixed reactions online when it was first revealed in December. Director Jon M. Chu, however, believes the title of the second installment has certainly been changed for the better.

Contemplating making "Wicked" amid the pandemic, director Jon M. Chu found powerful meaning in Elphaba’s words: “Something has changed within me, something's not the same.”

For a guy who’s spent the last several years of his life taking a well-known pop culture artifact and breaking it into two distinct parts, Jon M. Chu sure does have a lot of contempt for calling films “Part Two.