NEED TO KNOW

• Ariana Grande and Josh Gad are joining the cast of Wicked director Jon M. Chu’s adaptation of Dr. Seuss’ Oh, the Places You’ll Go!

• Grande and Gad posted photos of themselves holding scripts for the movie in front of their faces to Instagram on Tuesday, July 15; the movie itself will not release until March 17, 2028

• “Still some time to go, but trust me… we’re off and away,” Gad wrote of the project on Instagram

Oh, the places Ariana Grande and Josh Gad will go in their new movie!

On Tuesday, July 15, Grande, 32, and Gad, 44, revealed that they will costar in Wicked director Jon M. Chu’s forthcoming adaptation of the classic Dr. Seuss children’s picture book Oh, the Places You’ll Go!. The actor shared photos of themselves holding binders with their scripts over their faces in a recording studio.

“Never been more excited to go places. We are dreaming up something very very special for you,” Gad wrote in the caption to his post. “Warner Brothers Animation has put together a truly all-star team. I’ve been dying to work with Ariana, Jon, Jill, JJ, Gregg Taylor, Bill Damaschke, and Pasek and Paul for ages.”

“The wait was worth it. Still some time to go, but trust me… we’re off and away,” he added in the caption, noting that the movie itself will not release until March 2028.

In Grande’s own post, the actress simply wrote, “🧚🏻 Oh, the Places You’ll Go ! 💭” in a caption.

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is directed by Grande’s Wicked director Jon M. Chu, who confirmed he had signed on to the project back on Jan. 28. Chu, 45, will codirect the movie with Jill Culton, an animated film veteran who is credited as a screenwriter on Pixar’s 2001 hit Monsters, Inc., among other movies. She directed the 2006 animated film Open Season and the 2019 movie Abominable, as well as its spinoff series Abominable and the Invisible City.

Chu confirmed his involvement with the movie by sharing a Deadline article about the project on his Instagram Stories; he tagged Culton, as well as producer J.J. Abrams and EGOT-winning songwriters Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, who will create original songs for the movie’s big-screen adaptation, in that post. “Oh what a team for my first animated movie,” Chu wrote at the time. “Coming ’28.”

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Oh, the Places You’ll Go was the final book Seuss published before the prolific children’s book author (real name Theodor Seuss Geisel) died on Sept. 24, 1991, at age 87. The adaptation is not the only Dr. Seuss work in development. Warner Bros. is also releasing an animated adaptation of The Cat in the Hat — starring Bill Hader as the titular character — on Feb. 27, 2026.

Grande and Gad’s casting in Oh, the Places You’ll Go! comes as both actors have major projects in the works or lined up for release. Grande and Chu’s Wicked: For Good will release in theaters in November as the follow-up to last year’s blockbuster Wicked adaptation, while Gad is currently working on a sequel to Mel Brooks‘ 1987 Star Wars spoof Spaceballs that will see him costar with Brooks, 99.

Chu, for his part, has a number of projects in the works, including a long-gestating potential sequel to 2018’s Crazy Rich Asians and an adaptation of Britney Spears’ 2023 memoir The Woman in Me.

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is scheduled to receive an IMAX release on March 17, 2028.

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