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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: Bobalu

I have been saying that for years.
It IS possible NOW.
We could actually bring back actors from the dead, using computer graphics.
Bogart, Flynn, Gable, Wayne, Davis, Hepburn, all the old time actors can be recreated and their voices synthesized................Three Stooges...........


41 posted on 11/17/2010 6:40:44 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: kabumpo

Yup! She took over when Baum passed away. I had a bunch of first edition Oz books when I was a kid. Wish I still had ‘em!


42 posted on 11/17/2010 6:40:50 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Red Badger

Scarecrow.


43 posted on 11/17/2010 6:53:57 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: Red Badger

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!”.


44 posted on 11/17/2010 6:54:07 AM PST by LittleBillyInfidel (This tagline has been formatted to fit the screen. Some content has been edited.)
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To: Red Badger

Scarecrow.


45 posted on 11/17/2010 6:54:07 AM PST by luckystarmom
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To: catman67

They used to have this on Tv every halloween, I wanted to watch it more than I wanted to get candy.


46 posted on 11/17/2010 6:56:27 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 time the Wicked Witch wins...


47 posted on 11/17/2010 6:57:34 AM PST by moovova (Don't let Obama spoil the word "hope" for you...)
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To: luckystarmom

He’s 45..... Way too old..............


48 posted on 11/17/2010 7:00:06 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I also had a huge set. I loved those books and the illustrations.


49 posted on 11/17/2010 7:02:55 AM PST by kabumpo (Kabumpo)
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To: Red Badger

Yes, it can be done to a limited degree now. But it is at such a crude state that it takes more work than creating an animated film. Artists have to slave at graphics workstations just to create a few seconds of finished work. When the technology is ready it will then be very easy to turn a complete script into a film in just a few hours.

Imagine being able to create a finished film in 3D or as a virtual environment just by loading a script into a computer and fine tuning the details in real time.

In 15 years computers will be millions of times as capable as they are today....computer power grows exponentially...seems slow at first but we are nearing the point where the curve turns nearly straight up.

Actors will soon have a lot of cheap virtual competition.


50 posted on 11/17/2010 7:08:07 AM PST by Bobalu ( "Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother." ..Moshe Dayan:)
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To: kabumpo

The illustrations were great!! Loved Jack Pumpkinhead! I’d just stare at the pics,,,,


51 posted on 11/17/2010 7:10:17 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: caver
I won’t be waching any remake.

Not even with Obama playing the part of the Wizard?

52 posted on 11/17/2010 7:11:11 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra
*Yup! She took over when Baum passed away. I had a bunch of first edition Oz books when I was a kid. Wish I still had ‘em!*

Baum trivia:

I stayed in the “Wizard of OZ Hotel” when I was a kid that was owned by the daughter-in-law of Baum.

They had a photo of Oliver Hardy from the 1925 version of the film on the wall.

There were life-size cutouts of the characters in the yard.

My mom bought a painting done by his daughter-in-law.

53 posted on 11/17/2010 7:11:11 AM PST by PATRIOT1876 (Language, Borders, Culture, Full employment for those here legally)
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To: kabumpo

Ya know who could play Pumpkinhead? Alan Grayson!


54 posted on 11/17/2010 7:15:15 AM PST by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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To: Red Badger

They will over use special effects and drain all the color until it’s blue and black.

Oh, and don’t forget the homosexualization.


55 posted on 11/17/2010 7:16:24 AM PST by donna (Conservatives believe in God, Family, Country. Not money, money, money.)
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To: Red Badger
Will the Tin Man transform into a car?

Will the Cowardly Lion get a medal for Courageous Restraint?


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

56 posted on 11/17/2010 7:16:52 AM PST by The Comedian (I enjoy progressives, especially in a light cream sauce.)
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To: UCANSEE2
There's a "ZOMBIE whatever" coming out?! Awesome!


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

57 posted on 11/17/2010 7:20:38 AM PST by The Comedian (I enjoy progressives, especially in a light cream sauce.)
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To: Bobalu
Actors will soon have a lot of cheap virtual competition.

Especially from Asia......................

58 posted on 11/17/2010 7:21:48 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: The Comedian

Will the witch’s broom have pollution controls and a particulate filter?..................


59 posted on 11/17/2010 7:23:46 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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To: The Comedian

Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves!...Oh My!...................


60 posted on 11/17/2010 7:24:50 AM PST by Red Badger (The House finally fell on Nancy Pelosi..........)
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