But I really wanted it,” Todd said, with Goldberg’s publicist confirming: “This is true. Whoopi loved the book and tried hard to get the rights.” With Platt and Todd attached as producers, the “Wicked ...

Todd also recalled that Whoopi Goldberg's company was simultaneously vying for the rights—"but I really wanted it,” she said. It was Woolverton who first imagined the film as a musical.

Whoopi Goldberg will play Deloris Van Cartier and Jennifer Saunders will be Mother Superior Whoopi Goldberg is to return to the London stage musical Sister Act - this time in the starring role she ...