It was inevitable. Another remake and another 3D experience. Talk of a new Wizard of Oz film has been going on for years now. There are even three films currently in development including a CGI animated version [cool pic here].
The first Oz film project takes on the darker side. It’s written by Josh Olson the writer of A History of Violence, and it focuses on Dorothy’s granddaughter who returns to Oz to fight evil. This is also the Wizard of Oz project that Spawn creator Todd MacFarlane is helping with. The second film project is simply called Oz, this version is being produced by Twilight producer Temple Hill, and has a script written by Darren Lemke who wrote Shrek Forever After.
Well if they must, my vote goes for a dark version. I’m talking nudity and violence. I’ve seen the family version maybe fifty times and as much as I love it, I always felt it was missing something, maybe an axe kill via the Tin Man? Dorothy’s dress becomes a little too short after falling off a fence? Pay me. (Read on…)
