Dorothy of Oz is a CGI animated feature film being developed that serves as a sequel to the original Wizard of Oz story. While this film is under construction, Sam Raimi is currently preparing to shoot his Oz prequel film, Oz, The Great and Powerful. This new CGI project sounds like it's going to be pretty cool.
In the story, Dorothy returns to Kansas to find it devastated by the tornado that had whisked her away to the magical land of Oz. The home she had been so desperate to return to is no longer; the townspeople, with nowhere to turn, are packing up and moving out. However, before Dorothy can even begin to react to or resist this change, she is transported back to Oz in a giant rainbow. Oz is in trouble, and the people there need her help: Dorothy's old friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion have disappeared,...
In the story, Dorothy returns to Kansas to find it devastated by the tornado that had whisked her away to the magical land of Oz. The home she had been so desperate to return to is no longer; the townspeople, with nowhere to turn, are packing up and moving out. However, before Dorothy can even begin to react to or resist this change, she is transported back to Oz in a giant rainbow. Oz is in trouble, and the people there need her help: Dorothy's old friends the Scarecrow, Tin Man and Cowardly Lion have disappeared,...
- 11/3/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
First we were teased with the casting for this all-singing, all-animated return to Oz with the likes of Dan Akroyd, Kelsey Grammr, Jim Belushi and Martin Short joining Gleeful Lea Michele, who lands her first leading film role as Dorothy.
In that last link, you get to see some of the early sketches of the characters and today brings us a better look at some of the characters as well as a closer look at some of the more iconic locations from the world. Seth Engstrom’s Art direction has a few shades of Wonderland about it but it’s nice to see Ken Duncan’s character designs ‘fleshed out’.
Currently one of many Oz projects on the go at the moment Dan St. Pierre’s sing-a-long-an-Oz certainly looks right and has a great cast, here’s hoping the Tornado-ravaged Oz script has enough to keep us interested between nostalgic thwacks and musical prods.
In that last link, you get to see some of the early sketches of the characters and today brings us a better look at some of the characters as well as a closer look at some of the more iconic locations from the world. Seth Engstrom’s Art direction has a few shades of Wonderland about it but it’s nice to see Ken Duncan’s character designs ‘fleshed out’.
Currently one of many Oz projects on the go at the moment Dan St. Pierre’s sing-a-long-an-Oz certainly looks right and has a great cast, here’s hoping the Tornado-ravaged Oz script has enough to keep us interested between nostalgic thwacks and musical prods.
- 11/3/2010
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Old is new again as Alice in Wonderland turned Hollywood’s collective fickle attention to the power of retreading the world’s classic fairy tales. Of course, the remake industry was already churning in that direction with its never-ending trample of childhoods, but when Tim Burton’s re-imagining broke $1 billion the studios ran, not skipped, back into fantasy land.
1939’s The Wizard of Oz has been revisited before, namely an ill-conceived sequel, a bizarre Michael Jackson tribute, and a Muppet incarnation, but the classic is at the heart of at least four modern trips down the yellow brick road. Sam Raimi and Robert Downey Jr. are committed to Disney’s own re-telling, titled Oz: The Great and Powerful. Comic book artist Todd MacFarlane is shepherding a dark, twisted version. Drew Barrymore was rumored to be producing Surrender Dorothy about Dorothy’s great-great-granddaughter and her dusty, ruby red slippers.
Then there...
1939’s The Wizard of Oz has been revisited before, namely an ill-conceived sequel, a bizarre Michael Jackson tribute, and a Muppet incarnation, but the classic is at the heart of at least four modern trips down the yellow brick road. Sam Raimi and Robert Downey Jr. are committed to Disney’s own re-telling, titled Oz: The Great and Powerful. Comic book artist Todd MacFarlane is shepherding a dark, twisted version. Drew Barrymore was rumored to be producing Surrender Dorothy about Dorothy’s great-great-granddaughter and her dusty, ruby red slippers.
Then there...
- 11/2/2010
- by Jeff Leins
- newsinfilm.com
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