In just 4 days the SCI FI Channel will be offering its new miniseries “Tin Man” to viewers, and if the channel’s past track record for quality miniseries entertainment is any indication, then viewers will be in for an exciting treat come this Sunday.
L. Frank Baum’s 18th Century The Wonderful Wizard of Oz gets a new look for a new era of television programming, one fit for the 21st Century. Director Nick Willing (“The River King,” “Alice in Wonderland”) takes all the greatness that lay in the classic tale and offers up a reimagined story that will be inspiring, beautiful to watch and very entertaining.
The screenplay adaptation comes from the pen of “24” scribes Steven Long Mitchell, and Craig W. Van Sickle,who have already proven their ability write intense detail, with loads going on in a short space of time.
Many of the elements from the original telling will be there…a tornado, varied creatures, wicked witches, and the “little dog too!”
O.Z., an abbreviation for The Outer Zone, is a fantasy filled land rife with cowardly psychics, brain-drained inventors, a protector, the Mystic Man (Richard Dreyfuss), a twisted dancer and loads of other-worldly creatures and misfits. When DG (Zooey Deschanel) arrives, O.Z. is under the control of the wicked witch Azkadellia, deliciously played by Kathleen Robertson.
It falls to DG to usurp Azkadellia and return O.Z. back to the rightful leadership of the benevolent Queen Mother Lavender Eyes (Anna Galvin). Joining DG on this majestic quest are Glitch (Alan Cumming), Cain aka The Tin Man (Neal McDonough), and Raw, the Lion (Raoul Trujillo).
DG and her companions head for a rendevouz with The Mystic of O.Z. at his place in Central City and come across lots of exciting adventures along the way, both fun and dangerous.
This wonderful miniseries event will begin this Sunday, December 2 at 9/8C on the SCI FI Channel.
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