Wicked Warriors

The likes of J.J. Abrams, James Mangold, Ryan Murphy, and Rob Marshall are just some of the filmmakers who've either had a meeting or expressed interest in helming the film adaptation of hit stage musical " Wicked" reports Deadline.

Musical producer Marc Platt, book writer Winnie Holzman, and songwriter Stephen Schwartz have begun taking meetings with the various directors and will conduct more later in the Fall.

The musical itself has pulled in grosses of $2 billion worldwide, in line with Mamma Mia!whose film adaptation went on to make an additional $600 million worldwide.

As the creator of TV's hot show Glee Murphy seems like the obvious choice while Marshall ("Nine") has the most experience adapting musicals on film.