One of the most idiotic sequel ideas ever..

[Guest MarvinisaLunatic]

Toto, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore. In fact, in a ''Wizard of Oz'' sequel in development at Warner Bros., Dorothy and Toto are in a place that may be even weirder than Oz: New York City. And Dorothy is played by someone with a little more mileage than Judy Garland had at 17 – namely, 27-year-old Drew Barrymore. According to Variety, the studio is going ahead with the aforementioned ''Oz'' sequel, ''Surrender Dorothy,'' with Barrymore attached to star.

 

It's not clear when the film might start shooting, as producer Robert Kosberg (''12 Monkeys'') has been developing this project with Barrymore since 1999. He's also got some other irons in the fire, including potential movies with Adam Sandler (baseball comedy ''Wild Pitch'') and Ben Stiller (''The Hardy Men,'' in which the sleuth siblings grow up). But Variety's report suggests that all these projects are going forward, even as Kosberg signs a new deal giving first-look rights to his future projects to Bungalow 78 Productions (''Patch Adams,'' ''Catch Me If You Can'').

 

In ''Surrender Dorothy,'' Barrymore would play an updated version of the heroine of the L. Frank Baum novels and the 1939 movie. Kosberg described the premise a couple years ago to writers'-clearinghouse website AbsoluteWrite.com. While Dorothy appeared to have dispatched the Wicked Witch by melting her with a bucket of water, Kosberg said, ''What if the Witch didn't die? What if it was all an act? And now it's the year 2000 and the Wicked Witch is still alive and well and mean and green and she's broken out of Oz Jail and she's on her way to New York to get those damn red slippers once and for all.''  

 

courtesy ew.com

 

Someone has got to be kidding..the sheer stupidity of the plot (The Wicked Witch didn't die and now shes coming to New York for her slippers..) makes me sick.

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

There already was a sequel dammit.

 

Return to Oz...the creepiest movie EVER.

[Guest razazteca]

was'nt Happily Ever After and Great Expectations bad enough?

[Guest Madmartigan21]

Marcy: My husband was a movie freak. Actually, he was particularly obsessed with one movie, "The Wizard of Oz." He talked about it constantly. I thought it was cute at first. On our wedding night, I was a virgin. When we made love - you've seen the movie, haven't you?

 

Paul Hackett: "The Wizard of Oz"? Yeah.

 

Marcy: Well, whenever he - you know, when he came...

 

Paul Hackett: Yeah.

 

Marcy: ...he would scream out, "Surrender Dorothy!" That's all! Just "Surrender Dorothy!"

 

Paul Hackett: Wow.

 

Marcy: Instead of saying something normal like, "Oh, God," or something normal like that. I mean, it was pretty creepy! And I told him I thought so, but he just, he just couldn't stop, he just, he just couldn't stop, he just... couldn't stop.

 

 

 

The above scene is from Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

 

What's the source for this Wizard of Oz Sequel? Because I have to believe it's a bullshit rumor that someone started as a joke.

 

Oh, and they COULD make numerous sequels to The Wizard of Oz. Weren't there something like 13 books, with The Wizard of Oz merely being the first?

[Guest converge241]

Return to Oz freaked the shit out of me when i saw it in the theater when it came out.

 

can you even get a copy of that anymore?

[Guest bps "The Truth" 21]

There's a DVD of return to Oz.

 

I saw it in the theater too. Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

we have a taped copy of it somewhere

[Guest cynicalprofit]

Wasnt there also a version with the Jacksons in it? I swear I rememebr some of those slideshow thingies with shots from the movie.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

That would be The Wiz. The cast was primarily African-American. It was interesting.

[Guest godthedog]

you know what i'd love to see a sequel to? 'pulp fiction'. if ever there was a tailor-made movie for a sequel, it was 'pulp fiction', cause it was so open-ended. and they could even get away with putting john travolta in it, even though he died in the first one.

[Guest starvenger]

There's a DVD of return to Oz.

 

I saw it in the theater too. Scared the shit out of me when I was a kid.

You shouldn't be all that surprised, since the novels do have a dark edge to them.

 

Hard to believe that was Faruiza Balk as Dorothy...

[Guest crandamaniac]

To this day, the scene in Return to Oz, where the woman has the faces she changes still gives me the jibblies

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

Return to Oz freaked me out too.

 

One of the main villans was headless and would chop people's heads off to wear around as her own.

 

The other villan turned people to stones or ate them.

 

One of Dorothy's friends was a Pumpkin Head.

 

Those monkey things with the skates were pretty freaky too.

[Guest Flyboy]

Hard to believe that was Faruiza Balk as Dorothy...

Never heard of Return to Oz, but Fairuza Balk as Dorothy?

 

*runs to rent it*

[Guest Ravenbomb]

oh, Travolta dies in Pulp Fiction? Great, thanks for saving me the trouble of WATCHING THE MOVIE

[Guest starvenger]

Hard to believe that was Faruiza Balk as Dorothy...

Never heard of Return to Oz, but Fairuza Balk as Dorothy?

 

*runs to rent it*

Whoa there, tiger, she's about 10 in the movie...

[Guest Flyboy]

Oh... *whew*...

 

Thanks for letting me know. *runs to find his Fairuza Balk movie collection*

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I still don't get what people see in Fairuza Baulk.....I think she's ugly.

[Guest C.H.U.D.]

I like Return to Oz much more than the original Wizard.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

I still don't get what people see in Fairuza Baulk.....I think she's ugly.

BLASPHEMY~! She makes me foam at the mouth.

[Guest starvenger]

Oh... *whew*...

 

Thanks for letting me know. *runs to find his Fairuza Balk movie collection*

No prob. But there's no shame in renting the movie - just bear in mind that she's pretty young here.

 

I still don't get what people see in Fairuza Baulk.....I think she's ugly.

I don't really think she's hot or anything, but there's something about her that is oddly appealing. A "Je ne sais quoi" quality, I guess...

[Guest godthedog]

oh, Travolta dies in Pulp Fiction? Great, thanks for saving me the trouble of WATCHING THE MOVIE

a) it's not like i gave away the ending or anything.

 

b) i didn't know there existed any young males in this country with the internet who hadn't seen it.

[Guest converge241]

"Whoa there, tiger, she's about 10 in the movie... "

 

just go watch her quickie nude in American History X.. thatll make up for it

[Guest the 1inch punch]

oh, Travolta dies in Pulp Fiction? Great, thanks for saving me the trouble of WATCHING THE MOVIE

a) it's not like i gave away the ending or anything.

 

b) i didn't know there existed any young males in this country with the internet who hadn't seen it.

Although i think he was being sarcastic, that was a excellent point sir

[Guest evenflowDDT]

Who's Fairuza Balk?

 

Also, since it's my duty to pimp Something Weird and Full Moon as much as I can, Something Weird's got Herschell Gordon Lewis' (strange that he'd do a children's film I know, but money is money) Wonderful Land of Oz slated for a DVD double feature with his Jack and the Beanstalk in December.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

Return to Oz scared the crap out of me since I was 4 or 5 when I saw it. I really couldn't stand the headless gal *shivers*

 

Fairuza Balk...she's all right...I guess.

[Guest J*ingus]

Who's Fairuza Balk?

She was the lead evil witch in The Craft, is the voice of Connie on The Family Guy, was in various other flicks like The Waterboy, American History X, and Deuces Wild.

 

Herschell Gordon Lewis' Wonderful Land of Oz... with his Jack and the Beanstalk

 

That's fucking sick!