[Perdogg]

If you don't who Dakota Fanning is, which is not really the story.

[Perdogg]

Hollywood cannot find an original idea

[Pistolshot]

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.

[DieHard the Hunter]

> 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.

[paulycy]

[fwdude]

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.

[silverleaf]

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

[LongElegantLegs]

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’...

[Non-Sequitur]

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

[bgill]

Update: Michael Jackson, who stared in The Wiz, is still dead.

[BlueLancer]

Personally, I preferred "Tin Man" ...

[Sherman Logan]

the classic 1939 movie that shot Judy Garland to fame

Judy was hardly an unknown in 1939. She'd made a whole bunch of wildly popular movies with Mickey Rooney earlier in the decade.

[Moonmad27]

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.

[reagan_fanatic]

[r9etb]

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

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.

[TexasRepublic]

No remake will ever compare to the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz. That classic is being digitally restored and will be released in BluRay format at the end of October.