On the neutral side, seeing as I don't live in Arizona, Kansas, or Kentucky, it seems unlikely I'll get a chance to see it anytime soon anyway.
#NEW WIZARD OF OZ TV SERIES PLUS#
On the plus side, Doc Brown strikes me as an excellent choice to play the Wizard, and I couldn't help but smirk at the "in glorious 2D" line. But this trailer's a total mess - if it weren't for the synopsis (below) I would have no idea at all what it was about. There's a goofy charm to the trailer despite (or because of) its low-rent feel, and the premise isn't a bad one. Dorothy returns to Oz to discover the Wizard is missing, the Wicked Witch of the West has been resurrected, and the Scarecrows kingdom is in peril. Head to Apple to watch the trailer in HD. While the classic Wizard of Oz tale is certainly rich enough to support a modern retelling (Syfy did just that in 2007 with Tin Man, starring Zooey Deschanel), the scripts for Emerald City seem to. Christopher Lloyd, Sean Astin, Ethan Embry, and Billy Boyd also star. Titled Dorothy and the Witches of Oz, Leigh Scott's low-budget sorta-sequel stars Paulie Rojas as successful NYC-based children's author Dorothy Gale, who learns that her Oz adventures weren't imagined, but real. But in our excitement over that film, we've apparently overlooked another, unrelated project that also takes inspiration from L. Unknown, Lost, or non-English Adaptations. Frank Baum's original novel was famously adapted to the screen.
#NEW WIZARD OF OZ TV SERIES MOVIE#
Frank Baum are well known, one could argue that the 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz left such a strong legacy that it kept the number of later Oz movies to a relative minimum, including The Wiz (Rotten at 42), Return to Oz (Rotten at 53), and 2013’s Oz the Great and Powerful (Rotten at 57). The Wizard of Oz (TV series) The Wonderful Wizard of Ha's (2007 VeggieTales Episode) Tom and Jerry & the Wizard of Oz. A new adaptation of the classic children's novel 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' is heading to the big screen, Fox News can confirm. A WIZARD OF OZ REMAKE IS IN THE WORKS (Photo by Everett Collection) Although the Oz books by author L. I think it's fair to say that we at /Film have been pretty thorough in our coverage of Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel Oz: The Great and Powerful, reporting on every last Bruce Campbell cameo and black-and-white prologue. The Magic of Oz (cartoon) The Planet of Oz. Here’s the basic logline for the new Wizard of Oz TV series: When the return of a long-exiled Witch brings fear, division and war to Oz, the only hope is a servant girl who may become the most.