The original is great. I won’t be waching any remake.
Robert Downey at Dorothy? Seems about right.
There are some movies that have become American treasures that I feel nobody should try to improve on, just because they can. This movie is one of those treasures.
Can’t Hollywood come up with anything original?
Why remake a 70 year old classic?
I find the notion of a “Yellow Submarine” remake to be at least as horrific and unnecessary as a Wizard of Oz remake.
Next up, a remake of “Casablanca” and a re-paint of the Sistine Chapel.
If Disney is doing a remake of Wizard of Oz, watch for:
1) hidden Phallus symbolisms—probably the twister in Kansas
2) secret references to satanism —Oz
3) subtle metaphors for pedophilia—Scarecrow/Dorthy relationship
4) homosexual references—Wicked Witch of West’s army
5) Witchcraft Glorification—Glenda the Good Witch
6) Anti-Militarism—the cowardly lion
7) Ant-Capitalism—Munchkin land being a ‘little people’s paradise’
8) Anti-Christian- Dorthy will surely be fleeing from Auntie Em because Em is a ‘bitter clinger’
Ugh.
Drag Me to Oz?
Ugh. I’m sure Zemeckis will make the movie visually stunning (he is a ‘wiz’ at that), but why mess with such a revered classic?
This ranks right up there with the (thankfully) failed plan to remake Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid with Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, and the short-lived rumor that Sean Penn was looking to star as Rick in a remake of Casablanca.
They are remaking True Grit. Nothing is sacrosanct in Hollywood.
Hollywood needs to leave this movie(Wizard Of Oz)alone.It doesn’t need a remake.The Wizard Of Oz is an All time classic movie and there is nothing that any of these directors can do to make a better version.
The other replies aside, the movie was a extreme;y sanitized version of the book. If you’re going to do a remake do it accurate to the book the way it should have been done in the first place.
Was the original a classic? Sure. Was it done properly? With 19 writers on it? No.
In a decade or two computer power will rise to a level that will allow a rebuild of the original film. It could be rendered in 3D and widescreen. It could even be rendered as a virtual interactive environment. Sets could be altered while leaving the original actors untouched. I say hold off on remakes until they can be done properly.
Sometime around 2025 all that will be needed to create a film/3D/virtual environment will be a script and a super computer render farm...actors no longer required.
There is no imagination and even less talent left in Hollywood. I haven't been to the movies in years.
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!”.
This time the Wicked Witch wins...
They will over use special effects and drain all the color until it’s blue and black.
Oh, and don’t forget the homosexualization.