Craig Th Posted November 24, 2006 Report Posted November 24, 2006 From Zap2It.com The Sci Fi Channel is off to see the wizard -- RHI Entertainment that is -- to create a six-hour miniseries based on L. Frank Baum's "The Wizard of Oz." "Tin Man" (working title) will begin production on its science fiction, psychedelic reimagining of the already bizarre tale in early 2007 in Vancouver, with a projected December 2007 premiere. In this updated epic tale, a young woman named DG somehow gets snatched up and thrust into the fantastical realm known as The Outer Zone (aka The O.Z) that's currently oppressed by dark magic. Along the way, she befriends the half-brained man Glitch, the wolverine-like Raw who seeks courage and the emotionally scarred, heroic Cain, who was once part of the police force known as Tin Men in the O.Z. DG is journeying along the Old Road to seek the Mystic Man, but in the end, has a showdown with the wicked Azkeadellia, who has curiously close ties to DG herself. Casting is currently underway. Robert Halmi, Sr. and Jr. will executive produce, along with Mitchell and Van Sickle ("The Pretender"). RHI Entertainment previously collaborated with Sci Fi for the 2004 miniseries "Legend of Earthsea," starring Shawn Ashmore, Kristin Kreuk, Danny Glover, and Isabella Rossellini. The best known version of "The Wizard of Oz" was released in theaters in 1939 and starred Judy Garland as Dorothy Gale. Several other versions, sequels and spinoffs followed, most notably the musical "The Wiz," which was adapted into a film starring Michael Jackson and Diana Ross in 1978, and the recent TV movie "Muppets' Wizard of Oz," starring Ashanti, Jeffrey Tambor and various muppets.
MarvinisaLunatic Posted November 24, 2006 Report Posted November 24, 2006 Thats blasphemy. I wouldnt mind a straight up remake with special effects updates and all..but seriously.. and the fact its going to be a 6 hour mini-series is even more retarded.
Corey_Lazarus Posted November 24, 2006 Report Posted November 24, 2006 I dunno, it's sounds fun in a sorta trainwreck way. Sci-Fi original series have been pretty damn solid (the few eps of Eureka I've caught were good, and Battlestar Galactica is practically worshipped by a few critics), the complete opposite for their "movies," so...I dunno. Jury's out. Could be really fun, could be utter shyte.
Gary Floyd Posted November 24, 2006 Report Posted November 24, 2006 I'm sure it will feature someone from "Stargate SG-1"
starvenger Posted November 24, 2006 Report Posted November 24, 2006 I'm sure it will feature someone from "Stargate SG-1" Or BSG. Or an Ashmore brother. Anyway, why sci-fi it up? Aside from the fact that it's on Sci-Fi, that is. If you do a faithful, non-musical version of the book, and it's successful, you can get going on Baum's other 13 books in the series. I mean, it's worked with some other series of books, right?
RepoMan Posted November 26, 2006 Report Posted November 26, 2006 Sounds interesting for a made for TV mini-series. Couldn't be any worse than Return to OZ.
The Amazing Rando Posted November 26, 2006 Report Posted November 26, 2006 Glitch should be the Tin Man's name and Cain the scarecrow's, even if the biblicial implications of the name show that Cain was NOT a farmer. "Glitch" just sounds more metal...
AndrewTS Posted November 26, 2006 Report Posted November 26, 2006 Sci-fi WOO has been done: http://www.stomptokyo.com/badmoviereport/r...zardofmars.html
gWIL Posted November 26, 2006 Report Posted November 26, 2006 Sounds interesting for a made for TV mini-series. Couldn't be any worse than Return to OZ. Take it back. Return to Oz was my favorite movie growing up. I was one of the few children that it didn't give nightmares to.
starvenger Posted November 26, 2006 Report Posted November 26, 2006 Odd to think that that was Fariuza Balk as Dorothy...
Corey_Lazarus Posted November 27, 2006 Report Posted November 27, 2006 Even odder to think of talking hens and how none of the familiar characters looked like themselves...
Ginger Snaps Posted November 27, 2006 Report Posted November 27, 2006 Sounds interesting for a made for TV mini-series. Couldn't be any worse than Return to OZ. Take it back. Return to Oz was my favorite movie growing up. I was one of the few children that it didn't give nightmares to. Yeah. That was a really creepy movie.
randomguy Posted November 27, 2006 Report Posted November 27, 2006 I liked Return to Oz and yes, it was creepy. The Wizard of Oz is a really fucking gay movie. I don't care who remakes it. Seriously try to sit down and watch that shit, I can't make it more than about 5 minutes.
starvenger Posted November 27, 2006 Report Posted November 27, 2006 I'm sure that back when they started making this movie in 1938 they were saying "let's make a really fucking gay movie" in anticipation of some guy on an internet board in 2006 declaring it to, indeed, be "a really fucking gay movie"...
Jericholic82 Posted November 27, 2006 Report Posted November 27, 2006 I'm sure that back when they started making this movie in 1938 they were saying "let's make a really fucking gay movie" in anticipation of some guy on an internet board in 2006 declaring it to, indeed, be "a really fucking gay movie"... that was a great line SIGGED anyhow to topic, I dont want to see any other Oz remake, to me there will be always only 1 movie (though it was much softer ad kid-friendly than the original book)
randomguy Posted November 27, 2006 Report Posted November 27, 2006 I don't live in 1938. Dorothy is so annoying don't you want to strangle her?
RepoMan Posted November 29, 2006 Report Posted November 29, 2006 Judy Garland was hot, then in Return to Oz, Dorothy is 10 years old. That's part of the reason I didn't like Return, other than it was creepy as hell and freaked me out when I saw it when I was 10 and when I was totally drunk and stoned out of my mind when I was 19.
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