10 Recent Movie Trailers That Totally Lied To You

10. Wicked

Most of the trailers for Wicked were rather coy about the film being a musical, though the final trailer did at last drop the pretense and embrace this.

What Universal was decidedly less keen to promote, however, was the fact that Wicked is a two-part movie project, with sequel Wicked: For Good due to release this coming November.

Though the first half of the story was originally announced as Wicked: Part One, the studio dropped the subtitle during production, almost certainly due to the tendency for the first part of two-part movies to underperform at the box office - most recently Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part One.

Yet to casual moviegoers - that is, not chronically online film fans - and those who've never seen the stage musical, they had every reason to believe that the first Wicked would adapt the entire production.

As a small mercy, though, Universal at least didn't wait until the very end of the movie to drop the Part One reveal - looking at you, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse - as an on-screen title in an establishing scene bore the name "Wicked: Part One."