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Warner Bros Wants Zemeckis For 'Wizard Of Oz' Remake Based On Original MGM Script
www.deadline.com ^ | Tuesday November 16, 2010 @ 6:59pm EST | By MIKE FLEMING

Posted on 11/17/2010 5:28:25 AM PST by Red Badger

Whenever you remake a revered Hollywood film, there’s bound to be controversy, but going right to the original material is certainly an interesting approach. Warner Bros is in early talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct a live-action remake of the The Wizard of Oz and plans to use the original script from the 1939 classic. Warner Bros owns the screenplay because Ted Turner bought it along with the MGM library before Warner Bros bought Turner’s empire.

This latest Oz twist comes as Disney is trying very hard to mount The Great And Powerful Oz. Sam Raimi is developing that film while he simultaneously develops World of Warcraft for Warner Bros and Legendary. Disney and Raimi want Robert Downey Jr as their star. The original Wizard of Oz script had a total of 19 writers (seems not much has changed in Hollywood) with many of them uncredited, including Bert Lahr who played the film’s Cowardly Lion.

This wouldn’t be the first hugely high-profile remake for Zemeckis; he's in the middle of a Yellow Submarine animated redux for Disney, scheduled for a 2012 release. Also, after working for years in performance-capture animation, Zemeckis has been moving toward a return to a live-action films, attaching himself to Timeless also at Warner Bros.


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KEYWORDS: mgm; original; oz; remake; robertzemeckis; script; warner; warnerbros; warnerbrothers; wizard; wizardofoz; zemeckis
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1 posted on 11/17/2010 5:28:29 AM PST by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger

The original is great. I won’t be waching any remake.


2 posted on 11/17/2010 5:29:38 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: Red Badger

Robert Downey at Dorothy? Seems about right.


3 posted on 11/17/2010 5:29:52 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Downey as the wizard..............


4 posted on 11/17/2010 5:34:17 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: Red Badger

Sometimes it is not essential to put the “sarcasm” on the posting....


5 posted on 11/17/2010 5:36:16 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don't taze my junk bro.)
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To: Red Badger

Johnny Depp as Dorothy


6 posted on 11/17/2010 5:36:20 AM PST by GunningForTheBuddha ("Corrupt governments from little ACORNs grow. " - seton89)
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To: Red Badger

The Secret of Oz -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diYQN-1f4yw


7 posted on 11/17/2010 5:38:16 AM PST by broken_arrow1 (I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
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To: Red Badger

There are some movies that have become American treasures that I feel nobody should try to improve on, just because they can. This movie is one of those treasures.


8 posted on 11/17/2010 5:38:31 AM PST by NavyCanDo
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To: Red Badger

Can’t Hollywood come up with anything original?

Why remake a 70 year old classic?


9 posted on 11/17/2010 5:38:46 AM PST by exit82 (Democrats are the enemy of freedom. Sarah Palin is our Esther.)
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To: Red Badger

I find the notion of a “Yellow Submarine” remake to be at least as horrific and unnecessary as a Wizard of Oz remake.


10 posted on 11/17/2010 5:39:12 AM PST by kaylar (It's MARTIAL law. Not marshal(l) or marital! This has been a spelling PSA. PS Secede not succeed)
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To: Red Badger

You can't improve on the original!

11 posted on 11/17/2010 5:40:49 AM PST by catman67
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To: Red Badger

Next up, a remake of “Casablanca” and a re-paint of the Sistine Chapel.


12 posted on 11/17/2010 5:41:40 AM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!)
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To: Red Badger

If Disney is doing a remake of Wizard of Oz, watch for:

1) hidden Phallus symbolisms—probably the twister in Kansas

2) secret references to satanism —Oz

3) subtle metaphors for pedophilia—Scarecrow/Dorthy relationship

4) homosexual references—Wicked Witch of West’s army

5) Witchcraft Glorification—Glenda the Good Witch

6) Anti-Militarism—the cowardly lion

7) Ant-Capitalism—Munchkin land being a ‘little people’s paradise’

8) Anti-Christian- Dorthy will surely be fleeing from Auntie Em because Em is a ‘bitter clinger’


13 posted on 11/17/2010 5:41:48 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: Red Badger

Ugh.


14 posted on 11/17/2010 5:43:05 AM PST by RexBeach
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To: caver

Hollywood is bereft of original thinking. There were a whole bunch of Oz books. Make a sequel!
1900 The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
1904 The Marvelous Land of Oz
1907 Ozma of Oz
1908 Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
1909 The Road to Oz
1910 The Emerald City of Oz
1913 The Patchwork Girl of Oz
1914 Little Wizard Stories of Oz
1914 Tik-Tok of Oz
1915 The Scarecrow of Oz
1916 Rinkitink in Oz
1917 The Lost Princess of Oz
1918 The Tin Woodman of Oz
1919 The Magic of Oz
1920 Glinda of Oz


15 posted on 11/17/2010 5:43:16 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Red Badger
Sam Raimi is developing that film

Drag Me to Oz?

16 posted on 11/17/2010 5:45:21 AM PST by LRS ("This is silly! It can't be! It can't be!!" "Oh yes it is! I said you wouldn't know the joint.")
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
LOL...you forgot this classic...

1973 Zardoz

17 posted on 11/17/2010 5:47:58 AM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Red Badger

Ugh. I’m sure Zemeckis will make the movie visually stunning (he is a ‘wiz’ at that), but why mess with such a revered classic?

This ranks right up there with the (thankfully) failed plan to remake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and the short-lived rumor that Sean Penn was looking to star as Rick in a remake of Casablanca.


18 posted on 11/17/2010 5:48:02 AM PST by DemforBush (If I ever get back my blue jeans...Lord, how happy could one man be?)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I knew that there were several other releases prior to the “original”. The “original” to me has Judy Garland in it.


19 posted on 11/17/2010 5:48:10 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: exit82
Can’t Hollywood come up with anything original?

Well.... no.

The new movies coming out are all V2.0 or higher of older movies.

Here's a list of some recent movies.

TOY STORY 3.
ALICE IN WONDERLAND.
AVATAR
FRIDAY THE 13TH
TERMINATORS
STAR TREK
THE SORCERER'S APPRENTICE
PREDATORS
ZOMBIE whatever
VAMPIRE whatever
THE KARATE KID III

20 posted on 11/17/2010 5:49:12 AM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lame and ill-informed post)
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