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FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS Writers Mounting NBC’s Modern-Day Oz Project DOROTHY GALE!!
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“Friday Night Lights” is going forward with fourth and fifth seasons, but two of its writers are also developing an NBC pilot loosely based on “The Wizard of Oz.”
“Dorothy Gale,” from Bridget Carpenter and Jason Katims, will take its title character from Kansas to Manhattan, where Gale contends with a wicked boss in the art world.
Find all of Variety’s story on the matter here.
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And it wasn't too bad.
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holy shit, we are gonna go through this all over again? and it should be based in los angeles...for this is the land of oz...plastic and fake THATS HOW WE LAFF THE DAY AWAY IN THE MERRY OLD LAND OF THE O...Z
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Sounds like they are taking a page from that funny book.
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...YAWN...
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With the chick that played Chuck as Dorothy.
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What the fuck? Is it like... if you live in Hollywood and you do something totally original your dick bursts into flames and your wife dies of aids? -- Any reason they can't make a show about a girl who moves from Kansas to NY to work in the art world WITHOUT shitting all over a beloved classic? Cocktards.
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..There are so many shitty OZ remakes these days. The sad thing is they are not based on the books, but the overwhelming juggernaut, the 1939 MGM Musical "The Wizard of OZ".
I would love to see Guillermo del Toro do a version of the story that is closer to the book...but once again, that would be like a remake or reboot in some people's minds. Return to OZ from 1985 was much closer in tone to the books than the 30's film was---and it was a huge flop because people only know the movie.
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I saw some art here of John Boorman's animated Wonderful Wizard, faithful to the original book. I've certainly been enjoying the current Marvel Comics adaptation.
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not to tell everyone ahead of timethat its based on the wizard of oz. nevermind.
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OZ and Alice's Adventures in Wonderland? Give it a rest, already!
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Even as a kid I didn't like it.
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seriously, Sex and the City can meet The Devil Wears Prada without taking a huge dump on The Wizard of Oz, can't it?stop saying every time that there's a young girl battling evil it's the fucking Wizard of Oz...
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Don't mean to yell, but thanks Mickey!
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...there's no place like home
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adapt the damn book! It's never been done before. Why we do we need constant updating? It's already an archetypal thing and every other television show has to do an 'Oz' episode. Can't we just do the book? If Burton can do Alice, can't we get someone decent to do Oz?
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...or don't do it at all. LEAVE OZ ALONE!!!!!!!!!
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...sounds like Smallville but with Oz...equally gay either way.
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Do it right once then leave it alone! This does not sound like a faithful adaptation so I expect to see yet more Oz on the horizon.
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Is it still possible to stop this from happening?
Is there even a fantasy element? Or are two skinny guys and a heavy set guy going to be Cowardly Lion, Tin woodsman, Scarecrow.
Toto can be a chihuahua.
Don't make the munchkins some random real world minority, like munchkin land is Queens or something.
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And - JESUS CHRIST - dude, stop using the word "mounting." Remember where you are!
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The morons can't sell anything with subtlety. You'll never ever hear a Hollywood pitch that begins, "Our object is to entice the audience with ambiguity and let them figure it out for themselves."
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"...will take its title character from Kansas to Manhattan, where Gale contends with a wicked boss in the art world..." Well it's not the 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' then! It sounds like the producers are saying: "What L.Frank Baum meant to say was..." Some things can be updated and provided with different settings, Shakespeare being a good example, but there are SO many good original ideas out there, why 're-imagine' a classic so much you change its sentiment and story. The lunatics are in charge of the asylum.
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Manolos or Jimmy Choos? I'm gonna puke.
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it would be a bit fables-ish, but if you're gonna copy, copy from the best!
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And vven if the writers are able to put together a decent pilot episode, after that, the gimmick is pretty much over.
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this project = EPIC fail
wow my first negative post!! I feel so geekteffied... -
What's next? A dark, twisted version of ALICE IN WONDERLAND, cause we haven't seen one of those in about a month...
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The Oz characters as crime fighters. I think the Tin Man was a Terminator-type robot & Dorothy could teleport when she touched a ruby.
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If there's a Dorothy Gale, I'm gonna need a Henry Gale.
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Correct me if I am wrong, but I think I know where this is going. In "The Wizard of Oz" Dorothy gets her head whacked during a tornado, and she has a dream about the Land of Oz. All of the characters in her dream are based on real people in her life. Now, in "Dorothy Gale" most of it will take place in our real world, but during her "dreams" we will see her in the Land of Oz, and the people in her life will have their fantasy counterparts.
If this is done right, it might actually work. Everyone is familiar with the characters from the "Wizard of Oz", so it creates a base audience that will tune in. Even the Syphilis Channel's "Tin Man", which really sucked, got high ratings, and it was a mini-series with characters similar to the Wizard of Oz. Dorothy Gale's dreams may be similar to Ally McBeal's hallucinations. I am assuming that this show will be more of a comedy than a drama.
I also see a correlation between Dorothy Gale and Clark Kent. Both of them come from Kansas, and both of them go to a Big City to make it big. I am sure that Jason Katims and Bridget Carpenter would try to make this like “Smallville”, so that the special effects can be kept to a minimum. Now what I am hoping for is a Batman prequel show called “Gotham”, which would be about the early days of Bruce Wayne.
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Or "Ugly Dorothy". Or "Yo Soy Dorothy La Fea" if you prefer...LAME! This is something I'd expect from ABC, the Vagina Network though. Although the guy who runs NBC seems like a big VAG so I guess it makes sense.
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You are not alone.
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really NBC, really.
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Oh, my!!
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but I agree with Rushdie, WHY would anybody want to go back to that damn farm, much less that crone, Auntie Em.
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Was fucking awful. Boring and droggy with just a touch of bullshit SciFi films tossed in for good measure. What a fucking disappointment.
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Have you ever watched "The Wizard of Oz" with a gay friend? If not you should do so as soon as possible. You'll never see it the same way again. "Come Out, Come Out, Wherever you are..." Jesus I nearly wept!
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Now there's a show I'd set the TiVo for. Will there be titty?
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It kinda sucked.
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Is a classic. It just didn't fit with peoples vision of OZ 1939. If anyone is going to do a another Oz film, they should look to the books and do a sequel. Gore Verbinski?
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grandparents youth.
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... when I browse the New Release shelf at Blockbuster, I don't only fear for the future of Hollywood, I fear for the future of mankind.
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Okay, the network has brought me in to fix this so we're okay. The FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS guys can stay on staff, because guess what, Austin is going to pass for Kansas now. We're not going to New York, we're staying in the heartland where a modern young Dorothy DID go over the rainbow as a kid but unlike the L. Frank Baum books, never went back. Now, she's a single mom holding down two jobs, hoping to move out of the trailer park and she can never forget the beauty and excitement that she gave away to return to ... all this.
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