Todd McFarlane, Warner Bros. and Village Roadshow Pictures are teaming for Oz, a dark and “edgy” reimagining of L. Frank Baum’s The Wizard of Oz books.
Variety reports that the film is based on an idea by McFarlane and developed by screenwriter Josh Olson (A History of Violence, Monster).
Although McFarlane has already ventured into the same territory with his grim, and rather fetishy, Twisted Land of Oz toy line in 2003, Olson tells Variety that the tone of the movie won’t be quite that dark: “I saw those toys, and Dorothy as some bondage queen isn’t something I want to do. The appealing thing about the Baum books to me is how wildly imaginative they are. There are crazy characters from amazing places. I want this to be Harry Potter dark, not Seven dark.”
(Note: The accompanying image of Dorothy is from the McFarlane toy line.)
August 22nd, 2007 at 11:35 am
Couldn’t take a snapshot of the rare “topless” McFarlane Dorothy, could ya?
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:07 pm
L. Frank Baum is rolling in his grave.
August 22nd, 2007 at 3:12 pm
Isn’t the Sci Fi channel doing this all ready with Tin Man?
August 22nd, 2007 at 4:01 pm
They should do a full fetishistic version on Showtime or HBO.
August 22nd, 2007 at 10:12 pm
C’mon, people, make something NEW!
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