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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There’s a difference, tho’, between men and women in that regard. Men can procreate and remain potent starting from the time they enter puberty until — theoretically at least — they keel over dead at age 100 or so.
That isn’t so with women: their risks of having children increase after they reach age 30. And eventually they can’t.
It’s less common to have a 40-year-old woman bear children than it is to have a 40 year old man siring them. Admittedly this is less true today than it once was.
Here is a perfectly logical scenario:
Dorothy has a SON in 1954 at the age of 25.
Her son has a daughter in 2000 at the age of 46, he is presumable at least 10 years older than his wife.
(APPLAUSE!!!)
Bravo and touche! I concede the point. Well done.
Thanks. It certainly wouldn’t work if the granddaughter was the daughter of Dorothy’s daughter, but if she is the daughter of Dorothy’s son it works perfectly.
Sorry :-)
But the chicken, the wheelers, even the gump were so much better in their respective books! Return to Oz was cobbled together from several different storylines.
That wasn't a bad flick...my kids must have watched it a dozen times....
Oh, I know- read the books as a kid/young adult. But I enjoyed it anyway and felt it was truer in some sense than the revere "original" Judy Garland film (which strayed wildly from the book!)I especially liked how they strived to keep the look of the original book illustrations of the characters-Tik-Tok was marvelous!(and pre-CG, to boot!)
My dad had a library of books when I was young and there were several Frank Baum books, along with Edgar Rice Buroughs, old "Little Big Books" and the original Grimms Fairy Tails. If someone wanted to make a scary horror film, they should get a copy of the original Grimm's Brothers fairy tails and base a movie on one of them.
Tin Man was good. Stood on it’s own but honored the original.
Not many.
I liked Tin Man, but the Dorothy actress irritated me to no end.
Short answer: Great characters, lousy plots.
Unfortunately, Basil, in the later Oz books Dorothy moved to Oz.
A much better idea would be to make a movie based on one of the other Oz books -- Ozma of Oz being a particularly fine choice.
BTW - totally agree with your tagline.
They’re perfectly suited for movies. Visually interesting, no complicated interaction, and everything get neatly wrapped up in under 200 pages.
I’d love to see the Glass Cat in CGI...
well, at least it’s not a movie version of the horrible “Wicked”...
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