Wizard of Oz re-imagining in the works..ugh
 

Coming to Sci-fi channel! Ugh...

The miniseries is a sometimes psychedelic, often twisted and always bizarre take on The Wizard of Oz. It centers on DG, a young woman plucked from her humdrum life and thrust into The Outer Zone (the O.Z.), a fantastical realm filled with wonder, but oppressed by dark magic. DG discovers her true identity, battles evil winged monkey-bats and attempts to fulfill her destiny. Her perilous journey begins on the fabled Old Road that leads to a wizard known as the Mystic Man. Along the way, she is joined by "Glitch," an odd man missing half his brain; "Raw," a quietly powerful wolverine-like creature longing for inner courage; and "Cain," a heroic former policeman (known in the O.Z. as a "Tin Man"), who is seeking vengeance for his scarred heart. Ultimately, DG's destiny leads her to a showdown with the wicked sorceress Azkadellia, whose ties to DG are closer than anyone could have imagined.

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Raph's Girl note: WTF?! Can't they just leave well enough alone!! ARGH!!! :ohwell: And instead of a cowardly lion it's a cowardly Wolverine?!

Ew. DO NOT WANT.

Just to see a less Shirley Temple-esque version, I might tune in for five minutes or so. But, that sounds rather, um... retarded?

I thought this whole 'dark and macabre reimaginings of children's fairytales' fad had blown over. Then again, this sounds like a parody of those. Has to be. I mean, the 'Outer Zone'? 'Glitch', 'Raw' and 'Cain' the policeman? Give me a break.

That's what I was thinking. If it's just a comical parody, I'm in. But, the description makes it sound like it will take itself seriously. If that's the case, it's doomed even before it premieres.

American Mac Gee's Alice. It's a story about a girl whose parents died and she goes to Never land and starts killing people.

There was also an Oz book he made, sadly I guess the Oz story didn't get as good of movie licensing as Alice. Alice has a game too, but her movie is supposed to have Sarah Michelle Gellar in it. Their also re-making the game as well.

Both are supposed to come out next year. Sad news his other book wouldn't get this treatment. Oh well at least it got a cool toy line from McFarlane.

I knew American Mac Gee had an "Alice" game, and that there was going to be a movie based on it featuring Sara Michelle Gellar.

I didn't know he wrote a book for his revamp of Alice, let alone an Oz revamp.

I must have these!

As for this miniseries....I'll give it a shot.

I can't wait for someone to do a REAL adaption to the Oz books (I've only read "Wizard of Oz" and thought it was fantastic!).

Didn't Disney do a pretty good adaption to one of the books? "Return to Oz"?

American Mcgee is a hack if there ever was one. Who leaves ID to make a crappy game for EA?

Return To Oz is a combo of 2 books, Marvelous land Of Oz (the 2nd book) and Ozma of Oz (the 3rd book). The 2nd book in the series, The Marvelous Land Of Oz, has nothing to do with Dorothy...it's about a young boy named Tip. What's interesting about the series is that by the end of the series Dorothy and her family live in Oz perminently.

U can read all the books By L Frank Baum here:
http://www.halcyon.com/piglet/books1.htm

There's 14 plus a book of short stories by Baum. But all together there are 40 books in the series that are considered canon. Oddly there are several books by Baum that aren't canon and just part of what's deemed the Royal Historians series.

U can see a list of all the Oz and Oz related books here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Oz_books

That list doesn't seem to account for the comic book series that's been out for a year.

That's...not...exactly right....at all.

They weren't really books, just ideas, and stories and sketches he fleshed out into a game. Same with Oz. Except Oz wasn't given a game. People dug his Alice stuff so they mechandized on Oz. No game. No Book. Maybe an art book, but thats it.

The rumors regarding the movie have been floating around since the game was released, with many different women playing alice. Sarah michelle Gellar, and Milla Jovavich. And remaking the game? Its only like 5 years old, is that true?

Run For Your Life!!!!

I saw a game listed for a 07 release along side the movie on a few sites so I figured I mention it. I thought I read Oz was a book to in an old Gamepro mag I had back when the game rumors were floating around. As for the story I never read the book myself just stuff about it. The brief description given on the Alice toys and the impression I got from the game trailer was just basically what I said.

Had I read it I'd probably know tons more but that's really all I know and I guess since there wasn't even a book like I thought then this movie has nothing to do with what I was talking about.

this sounds really dumb seriously why cant anyone just do a movie based on the books...the movie should be odd not gothic and spooky.
The books are odd and creepy at times but not all the time...people cant just seem tp express more than one emotion in a damn movie these days.
And Return to oz is by far one of Disneys best movies in my opinion but thats when they still did great things.
Nothing can and will ever be as bad as the muppets wizard of oz man was that crap and I'm a huge muppet fan.

Like those unsellable MacFarline "Twisted Fairy Tales" toys? I'm glad they never made "Twisted Dr.Seuss" with Cat in the Hat's eyes rotting out of their sockets, for no other reason than "It makes a Kickass sculpt." :trolleye:

Anyway, I mean, other than the 1939 movie, has ANY of these attempts been successful? There were a few cartoons here and there (though the DIC produced one did do some justice to the film), and a remake or two.

Y'know, I was just about to say the exact same thing. In fact, I was going to lead on it. I was against the idea of them doing Wizard of Oz again from the beginning. I mean, they did it once on the Muppet show (as a musical number), once on the Muppet Babies, and hell, the Muppet Movie was a parrellel to the Wizard of Oz. Think about it, "the Rainbow Connection?" Then they had to throw in too many references to American Idol, and too many pop music bits (like having Ashanti as the star). I did like a couple bits here and there, like Quentin Tarrentino's cameo (he should have directed the film!) And Jeffy Tambore was pretty good, but the entire thing fell flat. The songs were poor (The one about the Witch was pretty good, though, and I liked Naptime, only to hear Dr. Teeth sing again), and the script needed several more rewrites to make it... well... at the very least BEARABLE.

But then again, I really want to see the crappy Japanese cartoon movie "Space Oz" which I found at a dollar store. Just outta morbid Cureosity.