Merrick here...

Strangely, I was just thinking abut this project the other day. It had been a while since we'd heard anything about Todd McFarlane's efforts to build a live-action movie around his TWISTED LAND OF OZ toy line (HERE), so I assumed this had gone then way of the dinosaurs.

Guess not.

In a recent discussion with Empire, McFarlane talked about the project's status. While not exactly barreling forward, it still seems to be very much alive.

On the state of the script: They're on their second iteration right now, trying to get it into a zone that makes sense. Josh Olsen wrote a draft that didn't quite strike Warners fancy. Everyone was a little lukewarm. They wanted it more sexy! So they were going to do a rewrite and get some fresh eyes on it.

...says McFarlane HERE.

With so many WIZARD OF OZ projects swirling around (Sci Fi's recent TIN MAN, John Boorman's mysterious CG adaptation, and one or two more that escape my mind at the moment) I've long ago given up protesting further adaptations and variations of this property.

This said, in the Pantheon of the Unnecessary, TWISTED seems more interesting to me than others - although I suspect it'll be significantly diluted by Warners. But if they went bat shit crazy with it? That could be at least amusing, in a "I can't believe they did that"/"That's so fucked up, show me more!" sorta way...