McKay suggested that Jon M. Chu’s “radical” movie may become unavailable if “America keeps going on the track it is.”

Don't Look Up writer-director Adam McKay fears that movies such as Wicked could be banned in the U.S. in the future with the way the country is headed.

Filmmaker Adam McKay “wouldn’t be surprised” if Wicked was banned in the U.S. in “three to five years,” considering the state of politics in America today. Following the film’s brief ban in Kuwait, which local media speculated was due to its LGBTQ cast and queer-affirming comments from the film’s stars,