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.
Posted on 11/17/2010 5:28:25 AM PST by Red Badger
Whenever you remake a revered Hollywood film, there’s bound to be controversy, but going right to the original material is certainly an interesting approach. Warner Bros is in early talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct a live-action remake of the The Wizard of Oz and plans to use the original script from the 1939 classic. Warner Bros owns the screenplay because Ted Turner bought it along with the MGM library before Warner Bros bought Turner’s empire.
This latest Oz twist comes as Disney is trying very hard to mount The Great And Powerful Oz. Sam Raimi is developing that film while he simultaneously develops World of Warcraft for Warner Bros and Legendary. Disney and Raimi want Robert Downey Jr as their star. The original Wizard of Oz script had a total of 19 writers (seems not much has changed in Hollywood) with many of them uncredited, including Bert Lahr who played the film’s Cowardly Lion.
This wouldn’t be the first hugely high-profile remake for Zemeckis; he's in the middle of a Yellow Submarine animated redux for Disney, scheduled for a 2012 release. Also, after working for years in performance-capture animation, Zemeckis has been moving toward a return to a live-action films, attaching himself to Timeless also at Warner Bros.
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...........
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!
Scarecrow.
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!”.
Scarecrow.
They used to have this on Tv every halloween, I wanted to watch it more than I wanted to get candy.
This time the Wicked Witch wins...
He’s 45..... Way too old..............
I also had a huge set. I loved those books and the illustrations.
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.
The illustrations were great!! Loved Jack Pumpkinhead! I’d just stare at the pics,,,,
Not even with Obama playing the part of the Wizard?
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.
Ya know who could play Pumpkinhead? Alan Grayson!
They will over use special effects and drain all the color until it’s blue and black.
Oh, and don’t forget the homosexualization.
Will the Cowardly Lion get a medal for Courageous Restraint?
Especially from Asia......................
Will the witch’s broom have pollution controls and a particulate filter?..................
Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves!...Oh My!...................
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