Once upon a time, in the land of Oz, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg were vying for the right to go green as the Wicked Witch of the West, Elphaba. That's right: before Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo were cast in the movie musical version of Wicked,

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.

Nicole Kidman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Whoopi Goldberg, and Salma Hayek were also all considered for parts in the Ozian spectacle.

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.

In fact, the Wicked movie almost wasn't a musical, and nearly attached big names like Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as director Robert Zemeckis. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, producer Marc Platt—who has been involved with the project since its very early days—revealed some of the most surprising and interesting ways in which the film almost came-to-be since the Gregory Macguire novel's release in 1995.

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.

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