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Dakota Fanning to star in The Wizard Of Oz sequel?
indian express ^ | Monday , Aug 24, 2009 at 1219 hrs

Posted on 08/24/2009 5:15:17 AM PDT by Perdogg

Dakota Fanning may play the lead in a sequel to The Wizard Of Oz, it has emerged.

According to reports, the 15-year-old is being tipped to take the lead in a follow-up to the classic 1939 movie that shot Judy Garland to fame, reports Contactmusic.

The original film was based on L. Frank Baum's 1900 children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

The film's producer, Basil Iwanyk, says, "It will be set in the present day and feature Dorothy's granddaughter."

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If you don't who Dakota Fanning is, which is not really the story.
1 posted on 08/24/2009 5:15:17 AM PDT by Perdogg
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To: al baby; Artemis Webb; Extremely Extreme Extremist; lainie; lewisglad; PennsylvaniaMom; ...

Hollywood cannot find an original idea


2 posted on 08/24/2009 5:16:18 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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Sorry, Hollywood doesn't have ANY original ideas that they have to try and sell a REMAKE of one of the most remarkable films ever?

Let's hope this dies on the vine, and quickly.

3 posted on 08/24/2009 5:17:20 AM PDT by Pistolshot (Brevity: Saying a lot, while saying very little.)
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To: Perdogg

> The film’s producer, Basil Iwanyk, says, “It will be set in the present day and feature Dorothy’s granddaughter.”

(MIND BOGGLES) If the Real Dorothy was say 10 years old in 1939, what is the chances of her “Grand Daughter” being only 15 in 2009?

Highly unlikely, highly unrealistic, I would have thought. Great-grand-daughter at least.


4 posted on 08/24/2009 5:19:22 AM PDT by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: Perdogg

5 posted on 08/24/2009 5:19:37 AM PDT by paulycy (Screw the RACErs.)
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To: DieHard the Hunter

I was thinking the same.


6 posted on 08/24/2009 5:21:55 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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Hollywood cannot find an original idea

I have been saying that for years. Amazing, isn't it?

7 posted on 08/24/2009 5:22:44 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Perdogg

Avatar looks good. Lots of CGI.

Time for somebody to come along and make the Edgar Rice Burroughs flicks about mars and venus.


8 posted on 08/24/2009 5:23:05 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: Puppage

They can always make another vampire series. ****Eyes roll**


9 posted on 08/24/2009 5:24:52 AM PDT by Perdogg (Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
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To: Perdogg

I cannot stand modernized remakes. No doubt the writers will incorporate some of the vilest rap and modern “music” to show how “with it” they can be.

Won’t be seeing it.


10 posted on 08/24/2009 5:26:02 AM PDT by fwdude (It is time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: Perdogg

I can’t wait. A PG-13 Wizard of Oz movie.
Gratuitous rape scene?
A morally ambiguous evil witch?
Aunty Em as child abuser?


11 posted on 08/24/2009 5:26:27 AM PDT by silverleaf (If we are astroturf, why are the democrats trying to mow us?)
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To: Perdogg

Frank Baum wrote MANY sequels to the Wizard of Oz, why don’t they just try making one of those?
Anything to erase the abomination of ‘Return to Oz’...


12 posted on 08/24/2009 5:26:34 AM PDT by LongElegantLegs (It takes a viking to raze a village!)
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To: paulycy

she’s more of the batman scary character of Scare Crow - than the nice idiot in OZ...but then again, it’s her mentality that makes her dangerous!

Great Photo


13 posted on 08/24/2009 5:27:29 AM PDT by BCW (http://babylonscovertwar.com)
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To: LongElegantLegs

Hey! I liked “Return to Oz”! My kids did, too.
(OK, I’ll grant you the ‘wheelers’ were annoying as all get out.)
And it had a talking chicken...c’mon, that’s gotta count for something!


14 posted on 08/24/2009 5:34:34 AM PDT by ozark hilljilly (Change you can believe in...Revolution you must pay for.)
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To: Perdogg

There are some movies they just shouldn’t remake and this is one of them.


15 posted on 08/24/2009 5:34:43 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: cripplecreek
Time for somebody to come along and make the Edgar Rice Burroughs flicks about mars and venus.

Pixar is working on "Carter of Mars." No joke, their first live action film.
16 posted on 08/24/2009 5:35:49 AM PDT by swatbuznik
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To: Non-Sequitur

Exactly - The Wizard of Oz should remain untouched and undefiled. There is nothing that can be added to it.


17 posted on 08/24/2009 5:38:21 AM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas, Rosie ODonnell, Maureen Dowd, Medea Benjamin - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: DieHard the Hunter
If the Real Dorothy was say 10 years old in 1939, what is the chances of her “Grand Daughter” being only 15 in 2009?

Guess you missed our family reunion this summer. Dates and ages fit perfectly.

18 posted on 08/24/2009 5:40:36 AM PDT by bgill (The evidence simply does not support the official position of the Obama administration)
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Exactly - The Wizard of Oz should remain untouched and undefiled. There is nothing that can be added to it.

It's already been defiled at least once - or have you fogotten "The Wiz"?

19 posted on 08/24/2009 5:42:08 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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To: swatbuznik
Pixar is working on "Carter of Mars." No joke, their first live action film.

Sounds cool but I still need some real actors. The mars series was great but I actually prefered the Venus series.

Personally I tend to think the old sci fi writers were better simply because they never envisioned that their books could be made into film. I think it made far more creative writers.
20 posted on 08/24/2009 5:42:41 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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