The Director Of EXCALIBUR And DELIVERANCE Brings You...THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ!?!?

Merrick here...
John Boorman is attached to direct a CGI adaptation of L. Frank Baum's THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ.

The English-language adaptation maintains the tale's main characters and settings. Unlike the MGM classic, however, it's not a musical.

...says THIS WRITE-UP in Variety. While MGM's WIZARD OF OZ is one of my top three most favoriotest films of all time & I get jittery whenever another OZ adaptation/re-imagining launches, I can actually see Boorman's sensibilities working for this project. The original book's tone was quite different than MGM's musical adaptation & has never been faithfully realized on screen. Also, THE WIZARD OF OZ featured prominently in Boorman's ZARDOZ, so the story is clearly close to his heart. This could be interesting...maybe. Of course, God knows how I'll feel should those backwoodsy Munchkins go DELIVERANCE on The Cowardly Lion. Or if that creepy balloon guy gives poor Dorothy the Igraine treatment...