MattFancy Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/movie-talk-oz-next-franchise.html?nc It appears Dorothy Gale is, once again, not going to be in Kansas any more. With the "Harry Potter" franchise winding down, Warner Brothers has set their sights on building another franchise geared toward young adults based on one of the most popular films of all time, "The Wizard of Oz" . Warner Brothers has had two separate projects in development over the past year centered around wide-eyed Dorothy Gale from Kansas -- a role made iconic by Judy Garland in 1939 -- who finds herself swept off (literally) to a magical land full of eccentric creatures called Oz. The box-office take of "Alice in Wonderland" -- $133 million domestically, and counting -- makes this project seem even more attractive. I guess Hollywood really has run out of ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KingGibbs Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Darn. Thought they were talking about HBO's "OZ." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxBuddy21 Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Darn. Thought they were talking about HBO's "OZ." Thats what I thought too but this could be interesting. Always been a Wizard of Oz fan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
China Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 Frank Baum wrote a whole series of books about Oz that were very popular in the early part of the 20th century. Hopefully it would be based on those, not just some Hollywood script writer's spin on the Wizard of Oz. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattFancy Posted March 12, 2010 Author Share Posted March 12, 2010 Frank Baum wrote a whole series of books about Oz that were very popular in the early part of the 20th century. Hopefully it would be based on those, not just some Hollywood script writer's spin on the Wizard of Oz.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books It sounded like that's what they could be based on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TD_washingtonredskins Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 I'd be excited to see this. The only issue is that this is truly a CLASSIC movie and now you're messing with that. I suppose if they did a completely different version and stayed true to the books, it would be OK. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdrums Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheLongshot Posted March 12, 2010 Share Posted March 12, 2010 I'd be excited to see this. The only issue is that this is truly a CLASSIC movie and now you're messing with that. I suppose if they did a completely different version and stayed true to the books, it would be OK. That's really the attraction here, a non-musical, closer to the book adaptation of the story. This story doesn't seem to cover John Boorman's animated version of 'The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz', which is currently in development. http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/john-boorman--a-very-english-visionary-is-back-1774989.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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