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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

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To: kaylar

The original Yellow Submarine was too much to sit through. I can’t imagine another. The only thing to make it worse would be to include Yoko Ono.


21 posted on 11/17/2010 5:49:56 AM PST by caver (Obama: Home of the Whopper)
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To: caver

The books I listed were just the ones that Baum wrote. There have been many others as well.


22 posted on 11/17/2010 5:50:28 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: LRS
I know. “The Evil Oz”. Turn it into a musical, with wicked dwarfs singing “Follow the Necronomicon Road” or Dorothy singing”Somewhere Over the Necronomicon”...
23 posted on 11/17/2010 5:56:06 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: Red Badger

They are remaking True Grit. Nothing is sacrosanct in Hollywood.


24 posted on 11/17/2010 5:57:22 AM PST by dangerdoc (see post #6)
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To: Red Badger
They did make a remake called the 'Wiz'....obviously it sucked......I got to move on down, move on down the road!
25 posted on 11/17/2010 5:57:53 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Skin-color counters are bigots!!!!!!!!!!....(thanks paulycy))
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To: Red Badger

Hollywood needs to leave this movie(Wizard Of Oz)alone.It doesn’t need a remake.The Wizard Of Oz is an All time classic movie and there is nothing that any of these directors can do to make a better version.


26 posted on 11/17/2010 5:58:24 AM PST by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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To: NavyCanDo

Yep, and the remakes are failures most of the time, just as when they remade “Stagecoach”. The original was unbeatable.


27 posted on 11/17/2010 5:59:05 AM PST by calex59
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I am mad they are going to remake the classic “Poltergeist”. Not quite up there Wizard of Oz, but still a sci-fi\horror classic. This Wizard of Oz is a stupid idea,will fail and barely make the the probable 250 million dollar budget back. Zemekis would be wise to run not walk from this idea. A Lord of the Rings prequel, smart, same director, same chemistry. But when Tina Fey and Steven Colbert qualify as “Brilliant” Hollywood writing talent, what are you left with.


28 posted on 11/17/2010 6:00:12 AM PST by pburgh01
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To: Red Badger

The other replies aside, the movie was a extreme;y sanitized version of the book. If you’re going to do a remake do it accurate to the book the way it should have been done in the first place.

Was the original a classic? Sure. Was it done properly? With 19 writers on it? No.


29 posted on 11/17/2010 6:01:13 AM PST by Peter from Rutland
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To: catman67
Hire Bernie Goldberg for the Wizard


30 posted on 11/17/2010 6:01:48 AM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Skin-color counters are bigots!!!!!!!!!!....(thanks paulycy))
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To: NY.SS-Bar9; camle; Alkhin; Professional Engineer; katana; Mr. Silverback; MadIvan; agrarianlady; ...
Next up, a remake of “Casablanca” and a re-paint of the Sistine Chapel.

RIMMER: There's everything here, all the mail, entertainment cassettes, a new batch of movies.
LISTER: Oh! The new Friday the 13th movie -- Friday the 13th part one thousand six hundred and forty nine.
RIMMER: Look, Casablanca! They've re-made Casablanca!
LISTER: Philistines. I mean how can you re-make Casablanca? The one starring Myra Dinglebat and Peter Beardsley was definitive.
HOLLY: I saw that one -- knockout! "Of all the space bars on all the worlds you had to re-materialize in mine."

31 posted on 11/17/2010 6:02:55 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 666 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: MadelineZapeezda
They did make a remake called the 'Wiz'....obviously it sucked......I got to move on down, move on down the road!

True story. I had a black coworker who would walk down the halls singing that.

One day I walked past his office singing 'shuffle on down, shuffle on down the road'

Absolutely cracked him up...

(I'm eeeeeevil that way)

32 posted on 11/17/2010 6:08:59 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 666 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: null and void

It’s a sin against culture, that you remembered that.

And that I read it in their voices.


33 posted on 11/17/2010 6:18:23 AM PST by Psycho_Bunny (Hail To The Fail-In-Chief)
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To: caver

Zemeckis is an excellent filmmaker. I love the cast of the original, but not the corniness of the late 1930 s that informed the way the story was told.


34 posted on 11/17/2010 6:28:38 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Psycho_Bunny

If it exists, there is a Red Dwarf of it.


35 posted on 11/17/2010 6:30:18 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 666 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Red Badger

In a decade or two computer power will rise to a level that will allow a rebuild of the original film. It could be rendered in 3D and widescreen. It could even be rendered as a virtual interactive environment. Sets could be altered while leaving the original actors untouched. I say hold off on remakes until they can be done properly.

Sometime around 2025 all that will be needed to create a film/3D/virtual environment will be a script and a super computer render farm...actors no longer required.


36 posted on 11/17/2010 6:30:25 AM PST by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Not to mention the sequels written by Ruth Plumly Thompson etc.


37 posted on 11/17/2010 6:31:11 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Bobalu

...followed by virtual paparazzi


38 posted on 11/17/2010 6:35:31 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 666 of our national holiday from reality. - 0bama really isn't one of US.)
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To: Peter from Rutland

Agree. Hate that corny “it was all a dream” thing. The book was inspired by events of the late 1890s that had to do with silver and commerce.


39 posted on 11/17/2010 6:36:32 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Red Badger
Remake the "Wizard of Oz"??? What is wrong with the original????

There is no imagination and even less talent left in Hollywood. I haven't been to the movies in years.

40 posted on 11/17/2010 6:37:20 AM PST by jboot (Let Christ be true and every man a liar.)
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