Warner Bros plan a Return to Oz

Warner Bros and producer Todd McFarlane have announced that they want to take us all back to Oz again, but this time round it’s not going to be all singing munchkins and ruby slippers! Apparently, the take on Frank L. Baum’s classis series of books will be darker. Writer Josh Olson has said think “Harry Potter dark, not Seven dark”.

McFarlane has described the project as a “dark, edgy, muscular PG-13”, although it seems that Olson would rather a slightly more tame PG and claims it’s more of a sequel than a remake.

Olson has said he is focussing on the 15 Oz books and the wealth of characters and imagination for his inspiration. McFarlane, however, is aiming at the Lord of the Rings’ audience by giving it a “2007 wow factor”. He says, “You’ve still got Dorothy trapped in an odd place, but she’s much closer to the Ripley from ‘Alien’ than a helpless singing girl.” Umm is anyone else a little confused?!

Now it seems that the writer and producer have very different views on how this film will pan out, but thankfully Olson says that his approach to the film is to create his own plot with Baum’s characters.

More as we get it!

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