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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Update: Michael Jackson, who stared in The Wiz, is still dead.
Return to Oz, I’d forgotten about that movie, it was strange.
The only “take” on the Wizard of Oz that didn’t disappoint me, was the Broadway musical “Wicked.” It was a screenplay adapted from the book, Wicked by Gregory Maquire, so it did use his imaginative story. The play was a wonderful adaptation of the novel (not as dark) and a pleasure to experience. Stephen Schwartz composed the music and it was outstanding!
It is live actors, not CG characters. Taylor Kitsch will be John Carter, Lynn Collins will be the princess, but they will be live actors. Willem Defoe is Tars Tarkas (voice?). Most of the environment/animals will be CGI, of course. I agree about the old writers being better, but it seems Hollywood can’t do them justice either. I so hated “I, Robot.”
EGGSACTLY Batman!
Especially when you apply Laz's First Law of the Universe. (Which states that "there is not a single given situation that cannot be improved by adding a couple of Midgets.").
Such makes the Wizard of Oz as near a perfect movie as can ever be made!
Judy was remarkably well-developed for a 10 year old.
In genealogy, a common rule of thumb is a generation is 33 years.
Dorothy: born 1929 + 33 = 1962
Dorothy’s child: born 1962 + 33 = 1995
Dorothy’s grandchild: born 1995 making her 14 in 2009
Good for Auntie Em to teach Dorothy not to be a teenage mama.
Judy was hardly an unknown in 1939. She'd made a whole bunch of wildly popular movies with Mickey Rooney earlier in the decade.
Guess they don’t realize that in the original Baum books Dorothy and her aunt and uncle moved permanently to Oz. So much for that “granddaughter” bit.
Sigh - another remake, another generation that will miss out on a classic film and have the memory erased by a mediocre - at best - remake.
The talking chicken is/was legitimate Baum; several of his Oz stories featured one named Billina.
I really loved the interpretation they did with Tin Man. Just saw where the same guy is doing a similar thing
And they are doing it for another classic, Alice in Wonderland. The preview for Alice looks every bit as good as Tin Man.
http://video.syfy.com/index/alice/v1148642
Return to Oz was good, but I wouldn't call it one of the most remarkable films ever. Besides, it was a sequel to a remake of a series of silent films based on a musical based on a book ... Oz is the original Hollywood remake/sequel factory, its creator was involved in the early adaptations, and remakes and sequels have been produced every few years (okay, with a few lacunae) since ~1910. All this "Oooh, they are defiling a classic!" talk really betrays an ignorance of the property.
My mother was 6 in 1939 and her six grandchildren range in age from 8 months to 16 years old.
...and of course Chris Rock or another black star to jive-talk the funny lines...
Not unrealistic or unlikely at all.
My Dad was born in 1932. I was born in 1972, when my dad was aged 40 (almost 41, his birthday was just ten days after I was born). I have a daughter that's only 2. I'm 36 now.
So, my dad, who was only 7 in 1939, has a 2 year old granddaughter.
I liked Tin Man, too. Zooey Deschanel became one of my favorite actresses after I saw that movie.
> My mother was 6 in 1939 and her six grandchildren range in age from 8 months to 16 years old.
WOW. Would you say that’s a typical situation?
I also liked it, however I thought Zooey was the 'weak link'. I've liked her in other things, but "Tin Man" just wasn't one of them.
Probably not, but I wouldn't say it's all that unusual, either. My parents were in their mid 30's when they got married, as was my youngest sister.
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