Warner Bros. Plans Wizard of Oz Remake

[Spider-Fan]

Eh, I am not personally so against this. You can do the world of Oz a variety of ways to make it interesting. The part I am against is using the script for the previous film. Just make another adaptation of the book if you're going to remake it. Don't use the same screenplay. Make this new film its own film in its own right.

The Wizard of Oz was a great movie, but if you ask me, overrated. It's not the best film ever made to me, and it is very dated in many respects. This doesn't make it bad, it just makes it dated. And not dated in a way I think ages well. Some cheap SFX I think are dated age well in keeping the corny feel. The Wizard of Oz is seeking impressive atmosphere and top notch quality, yet I can see the wires and the Lion's suit sucks.

Again, I am not hating on The Wizard of Oz. I am just saying that it is something that can be visually updated. But, I do think using the same script as the previous film is a cop out. Didn't work for Psycho.

 

[Bat-Mite]

You can't successfully remake a classic. There's a reason why it's a classic in the first place. And there's no need. The effects and bright colors of the original film still stand up amazingly well today. And I doubt they'd be able to come up with anyone who could make music with even half the charm of the original. In short:



Now if they were going to do a movie solely based on the book, without any musical numbers, I'd be fine with that.

 

[Spider-Fan]

That is what they should do. Using the same script is stupid. The original film changed a variety of things about the book, so you can easily make a unique version of The Wizard of Oz that is different from the original film. This is a case of worshipping a film too much, both in bad ways. This is not where imitation is the best for of flattery. Just readapt the book.

 

[Lord Blackbolt]

I would have rathered Tim Burton done a remake of this movie instead of Alice in wonderland.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Given how lazy his Alice in Wonderland was (and a decent number of his recent films), I wouldn't want him for either. Such a disappointing movie that was.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Eh, I am not personally so against this. You can do the world of Oz a variety of ways to make it interesting. The part I am against is using the script for the previous film. Just make another adaptation of the book if you're going to remake it. Don't use the same screenplay. Make this new film its own film in its own right.

The Wizard of Oz was a great movie, but if you ask me, overrated. It's not the best film ever made to me, and it is very dated in many respects. This doesn't make it bad, it just makes it dated. And not dated in a way I think ages well. Some cheap SFX I think are dated age well in keeping the corny feel. The Wizard of Oz is seeking impressive atmosphere and top notch quality, yet I can see the wires and the Lion's suit sucks.

Again, I am not hating on The Wizard of Oz. I am just saying that it is something that can be visually updated. But, I do think using the same script as the previous film is a cop out. Didn't work for Psycho.

Agreed. Look at True Grit. Instead of making it an exact remake of the John Wayne film, the Coen Brothers make a movie more based off the book instead of the original movie.

 

[Bat-Mite]

The Wizard of Oz was a great movie, but if you ask me, overrated. It's not the best film ever made to me, and it is very dated in many respects.

I don't think anyone ever claimed that it was. Even in its day, Gone With The Wind was the movie that won all the awards, and the Wizard of Oz was almost forgotten about for over 15 years when it started showing on TV and got rediscovered.

The Wizard of Oz is seeking impressive atmosphere and top notch quality, yet I can see the wires and the Lion's suit sucks.

Uh... even though the makeup was impressive for its time, they weren't exactly going for realism with the movie. Even as a kid, I knew the cowardly lion was a man in a lion suit, not a real lion, just as surely as I knew the characters on Sesame Street were puppets. As a matter of fact, they wanted the actors to be recognizable through their face paint and costumes so that the audience would associate them with the people Dorothy knew in real life. I thought the ending of the movie made that pretty obvious.

If you go to see a play, a lot of them still use cardboard or wooden objects on stage as backgrounds and move the set pieces around according to the scene. Hell, I even saw a live recording of RENT where a catwalk, a few Christmas lights, and a couple of tables were pretty much the only things used as a set. You were just supposed to use your imagination to see the characters in a restaurant, alley, apartment, funeral, etc. I don't mean to be too preachy, but I think a lot of folks these days are spoiled by too much CGI and spend too much time being cynical and looking for the "flaws" in older forms of entertainment instead of just allowing themselves to disappear into the show and have a bit of fun.

 

[Wolfwood]

If they decide to just do a frame by frame remake, I wonder if there will be a transition when she goes to Oz. Like how the original went from black and white to technicolor. Will it go from 2D to 3D? Or maybe they'll go one step further and throw 4D at us.

 

[danoyse]

I have no problem with a new adaptation of The Wizard of Oz. But a remake of the 1939 version? What the hell are they smoking?

 

[cronosred]

I could see doing a series of movies that follow the books better but to just remake the old movie is stupid and pointless. At this point I'm most looking forward to the cgi movie. I wonder whatever happened with that Wizard Of Oz fan film.

 

[cronosred]

Given how lazy his Alice in Wonderland was (and a decent number of his recent films), I wouldn't want him for either. Such a disappointing movie that was.

I agree, I was really disappointed with his Alice in Wonderland.

 

[GhostPoet]

If we're doing a remake...let's just make it a fantasy/sci-fi film instead. =D

 

[Incrediblejeff]

Why don't they just make a Wicked movie?

It's coming.I'm finishing the book right now,and it's pretty good.
As for a remake of Wizard of Oz.If you asked me years ago I would be all over it,but since re watching it (for the umpteenth time)It doesn't really need a remake.Unless it's going to be closer to the book,or a adaptation of the other books.which this isn't apparently.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

I have no words. No words.

LOL. I love kingsely!


Anyways, I agree, there is no problem in a remake. Just make it closer to the novel. However, zemeckis is doing it, so It won't be live action.

 

[steintym]

No live action would be my biggest issue. Doubt I would be interested in anything other than live action. I'd need to hear/see more.

 

[Spider-Fan]

Robert Zemeckis is one of those people who used to be good. Then he got too interested in technology, and now his films suck.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Robert Zemeckis is one of those people who used to be good. Then he got too interested in technology, and now his films suck.

Ain't that the truth. Although I won't lie, polar express wasn't too shabby.

 

[Spider-Fan]

That was good. But it ruined his creativity.

 

[A Necessary Evil]

...Fair enough, as the truth hurts, but It did.

 

[Doctor Jones]

I was fine with this idea until I read that they're remaking the 1939 script. This will be Psycho all over again.

 

[Jennifer Walters]

They HAVE to make it live action though. There's a CGI Oz project coming out already.

 

[Bunker]

I'd be excited if they went for something like Pan's Labyrinth, but since it's Zemeckis, **** this movie already.

 

[litlgreendude]

Will it still sync up with dark side of the moon?

 

[Marvel Spider]

Ok, all this Oz stuff is starting to tick me off. Why aren't studios seeing the potential here? The potential to make an Oz movie that's FAITHFUL to the original book? Instead of remaking some script for a 71 year old movie, they SHOULD be looking at the book. There's so much potential. Heck, they could even make sequels that adapt the stories from the later books.

 

[CrimsonMist]

What's going on with John Boorman's animated adaptation of the novel? Some test footage leaked a while back, and it looks pretty cool. The character designs look pretty sweet, too. More excited to see that version, which is supposed to be closer to the book, than this version, which sounds silly.