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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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To: Red Badger

Oh, c’mon! They’ll not only over do the special effects they’ll WILDLY over do the special effects to the point of stupidity.

Special effects should be used as Hitchcock used them; to create a seamless, believable unbelievable thing. Today special effects ARE the film rather than a support to the story.


61 posted on 11/17/2010 7:26:34 AM PST by TalBlack
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To: The Comedian

Have you watched this one yet Big Tits Zombie (2010)


62 posted on 11/17/2010 7:31:41 AM PST by Lees Swrd ("Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe and preserve order in the world as well")
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To: Red Badger

***This latest Oz twist comes as Disney is trying very hard to mount The Great And Powerful Oz***

The original MGM WIZARD OF OZ bombed at the boxoffice big time! It gained a following only after being shown on TV years later.

In the 1980s Disney released RETURN TO OZ and it also bombed. I still remember Joel Segal’s review of it on a morning show.

He came on with tears practicly rolling down his face and and bawled about how could DISNEY dare to up stage the original Wizard of Oz, “The greatest musical ever!” Then he ripped into Return to OZ.


63 posted on 11/17/2010 7:46:36 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

“Not even with Obama playing the part of the Wizard?”

I have to watch that every day!


64 posted on 11/17/2010 7:56:34 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: null and void; MadelineZapeezda

**They did make a remake called the ‘Wiz’....obviously it sucked......**

The stage play was great! It is when movie producers decided to turn it into a blacksploitation getto film that it bombed.


65 posted on 11/17/2010 7:59:06 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: Le Chien Rouge
***4) homosexual references—Wicked Witch of West’s army***

Remember Bert Lahr’s statement...”I'm just a Dandylion!”

Flowers were often used as a metaphor for homos.

“Ah a sunflower! Swish, sister Swish!—Jimmie Durante (The Phantom President)
“Don't let the daisy fool you my friend!”—W C Fields (International House)

66 posted on 11/17/2010 7:59:32 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (I visited GEN TOMMY FRANKS Military Museum in HOBART, OKLAHOMA! Well worth it!)
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To: moovova

This time the Wicked Witch wins...

She may just do that................

67 posted on 11/17/2010 7:59:43 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: Red Badger

68 posted on 11/17/2010 8:07:53 AM PST by paulycy (Demand Constitutionality. Save America From Bankruptcy.)
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To: Red Badger

“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.”

I think we have a winning-combination. “Warcraft of Oz!”

Flying monkeys my a$$.


69 posted on 11/17/2010 8:19:49 AM PST by PLMerite (Fix the FR clock. It's time.)
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To: Red Badger
Al Gore as the Snake Oil Salesman/Wizard

Joe Biden as Pumpkinhead

Nancy as the Wicked Witch and the burning head of OZ

Barney Frank and Harry Reid as flyin’ monkeys

Bill Maher as the Scarecrow

Obama as the Cowardly Lion

70 posted on 11/17/2010 9:36:06 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel
*Robert ZEMECKIS is in early talks with Warner Bros to direct a live-action remake of ‘The Wizard of Oz’??

Cool! A tornado whisks a Delorian to Oz where the great & powerful Doc gets Dorothy back to 1985 Kansas from where Crispen Glover plays a neurotic Scarecrow - but is really just a nerdy farmhand who proclaims upon her return that “there is no place like home...and no blind spot when I would drive it, Biff!”.*

And instead of Toto, they'll have Rubin's cat (from Rubin & Ed). The famous cat that sustained Rubin & Ed in the desert with his water from the freezer.

71 posted on 11/17/2010 9:39:26 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: caver

72 posted on 11/17/2010 9:50:17 AM PST by BlueLancer (I'm getting a fine tootsy-frootsying right here...)
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To: Lees Swrd
Have you watched this one yet Big Tits Zombie (2010)

Nope, and I'm relatively certain that status won't change.


Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

73 posted on 11/17/2010 10:53:10 AM PST by The Comedian (I enjoy progressives, especially in a light cream sauce.)
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