You can blame the reboot rage you’re about to feel on the huge opening for “Alice in Wonderland.”
With the Tim Burton movie raking in cash at the box-office, other studios are looking at ways to re-imagine a variety of classic films for the modern audience. The Los Angeles Times reports that Warner Brothers is considering not one but two updates of the classic movie, “The Wizard of Oz.”
One project, called “Oz,” currently lives at Warner’s New Line label. It’s being produced by Temple Hill, which is behind “Twilight,” and has a script written by Darren Lemke, a writer on the upcoming “Shrek Forever After.”
A second “Wizard of Oz” project, set up at Warners proper, skews a little darker — it’s written by “A History of Violence” screenwriter Josh Olson and focuses on a granddaughter of Dorothy who returns to Oz to fight evil. “Clash of the Titans” producer Basil Iwanyk and his Thunder Road Pictures are behind that one. We’ve brought you news about this project before due to its connection with “Spawn” creator Todd McFarlane.
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Why not just do a movie version of Wicked? That would be more interesting.
The article in USA Today has Universal as having a film version "Wicked" in the works.
Will it be more like the book or the musical though? Two almost completely different things. The stage show sort of glosses over the whole Wizard's Oz being an allegory to Stalin's Russia thing just por ejemplo.
I can see YET ANOTHER reboot of the Wizard of OZ.
The Wiz
Return to OZ
Tin Man
Yadda, Yadda, Yadda
Rinse Lather Repeat
If it is done in line with the books and the script, actors, director, producer all line up then go for it. Then again these are the same requirements for getting something original and see where we are today???? So I guess the chance of this success is zero-
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Now that is just going too damn far in the remake department. The straw that breaks the camel's back has just arrived.