Originally Posted By AutoPost This topic is for Discussion of <a href="http://www.LaughingPlace.com/Latest-ID-81681.asp" target="_blank"><b>Latest: Disney Already Planning a Sequel to Oz</b></a> <p>Variety is reporting screenwriter Mitchell Kapner has already been hired to write the sequel to Oz The Great and Powerful which opens today in theaters.</p>
Originally Posted By DDMAN26 I'm not a fan of the Wizard of Oz, but I don't want to see a remake or reimagining. If that happens then remaking everything is on the table, Godfather, Casablanca, Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia will all be fair game.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I'm not always opposed to remakes. I thought Cameron's "Titanic" was a better film than 1958's "A Night to Remember", which was probably considered the "classic" film about the Titanic disaster. While neither of those films have the status of the films you mentioned, I hope you can understand where I am coming from.
Originally Posted By tonyanton Well a sequel can still take place before "Wizard of Oz" (this film was reportedly set 20 years before the events of the 1939 film)...what happens with the WW of the east and the Munchkins for example.
Originally Posted By basil fan "Return to Oz"? Buzz Lightyear of Star Command <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/disney/buzz.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...uzz.html</a>
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Oh, this is wonderful news! There are so many different books in the Oz series to choose from. It will be interesting to see if they include Dorothy in the next Oz movie. I wonder what Fairuza Balk is up to these days? ORGOCH: Last I heard she was lookin' at Nursin' Home brochures!! She's too old ta play Dot Gale by now, ya fool!!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORDDU: A witch could be wrong, but I doubt that Disney would ever make a movie on the first book--The Wizard of Oz--due to the popularity of M-G-M's iconic version. But there is so much territory to cover with Oz that the possibilities are endless. I would actually like them to pick up where they left off with Return to Oz and bring Dorothy back, along with Tic Toc, Jack Pumpkinhead, Ozma, Billina, etc.
Originally Posted By tonyanton I wonder if they could incorporate some of the "Return to Oz" character designs into future movies.? The Scarecrow, Tik Tok, and Jack Pumpkinhead in particular were so well done, IMHO.
Originally Posted By DouglasDubh They could make another sequel to the Wizard of Oz, and deal with the events of that movie as a flashback. A loose adaption of "The Road to Oz" might work - Dorothy and a companion are propelled back to Oz, and she then tells what happened to her before. They set off toward the Emerald City and along the way meet the Wizard,who is returning to Glinda's side after journeying back to the real world briefly at the end of "The Wizard of Oz".
Originally Posted By oc_dean I hope they don't race it too quickly. I didn't particularly think the script of the current movie was all that great!
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: That's okay. There were enough other fans out there who thought the current script WAS well done and that's enough of a reason for Disney to go forward with a sequel. I'm already looking forward to it.
Originally Posted By mawnck >>There were enough other fans out there who thought the current script WAS well done << No there weren't. None of the fans who bought a ticket had read or seen the script.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: But they saw the movie and that's the same thing. You sure love to split hairs, mawnck, ducling.
Originally Posted By mawnck Seeing the movie is the same thing as thinking the script was well done? Srsly? I've seen plenty of movies with scripts I didn't think were well done. As have you, if memory serves me correctly.
Originally Posted By basil fan I think the witches mean that, after seeing the movie, they thought the script was well-done. Great Mouse Detective ABC book <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/basil/abc/abc.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...abc.html</a>
Originally Posted By phantommanoraddict The script was well written. It served the purpose of telling a stor. A story of BEFORE Dorothy arrived. A story of what made the sisters combine for a single evil effort. What Glinda suffered. Why there was a need for a Wizard. It all made perfect sense. A great unfolding of a story.
Originally Posted By mawnck And here we go .... <a href="http://www.cartoonbrew.com/feature-film/legends-of-oz-set-for-2014-release-79174.html" target="_blank">http://www.cartoonbrew.com/fea...174.html</a>
