Variety reports that Fugees member Pras Michel has optioned film and TV rights to Dark Oz, originally published by Caliber Comics and Arrow Comics:
Screenplay was adapted from the work of original comic creators Aaron Denenberg, Ralph Griffith and Stuart Kerr with plans to begin production at the end of 2008. Pic will be a live-action version of the comic trilogy, which Michel intends to produce as three separate films. In addition to producing duties, Michel plans to star as the Scarecrow.
I’m not familiar with the comic, but there was more about it online than I thought there would be. You can see some pages from the series here and read about it on Wikipedia here.
March 3rd, 2008 at 1:38 pm
Between this, Scottie Young’s Marvel project, and McFarlane’s film project, it looks like Oz over-saturation has occurred. Not that “optioning” amounts to a hill of beans these days…