"I used to say, I can imagine Demi Moore naked and green on the cover of Vanity Fair," Gregory Maguire, the 'Wicked' author, said.

Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicole Kidman were just a few of the stars considered to star in a film version of Wicked in the mid-1990s. Find out who else was circling the movie.

When 'Wicked' was optioned by Demi Moore's company and in the early stages of development at Universal in the '90s, Whoopi Goldberg, Nicole Kidman, Salma Hayek, and more were being considered.

In the late '90s, Moore was one of Hollywood's biggest rising It girls, having starred in Striptease, A Few Good Men, and Indecent Proposal. She had also made waves with a series of nude Annie Leibovitz portraits for Vanity Fair. “I used to say, I can imagine Demi Moore naked and green on the cover of Vanity Fair ,” said Maguire.

Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg and Nicole Kidman were just a few of the stars considered to star in a film version of Wicked in the mid-1990s. Find out who else was circling the movie.

The “Wicked” movie is a box office powerhouse with $530 million and counting at the global box office. It’s also a critical darling, earning rave reviews and Oscar buzz for its leading ladies Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande.

A new deep dive on the origins of Wicked has revealed a number of revelations about the story's journey from the page to the stage to the screen.