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Some Interesting, Maybe Even Promising(?), Artwork From The new DOROTHY OF OZ Movie!!
Merrick here...
THR has some images from DOROTHY OF OZ, a CGI animated musical arriving in 2012.
Dan St. Pierre (who previously served various animation capacities on projects ranging from TV's SHE-RA and BRAVESTARR to movies like ALADDIN and THE LION KING) will direct this adaptation of Roger Baum's literary source material (available HERE
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GLEE's Lea Michele is voicing Dorothy, Dan Aykroyd is Scarecrow, Kelsey Grammer is The Tin Man, James Belushi is The Cowardly Lion. Patrick Stewart, Hugh Dancy, Oliver Platt, and Martin Short are among the picture's other vocal performances.
Click the images below to see more environmental and character art from the picture. This material appears on the film's official website as well as THR, so I'm not sure how crediting works out in this instance. But here you go, all the same...
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from the VHS, where the castle in the background looked like a big dildo.
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Well, not really, but that's what a "real" talkbacker would say, right?
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in CGI version. What's the point? Save a few (million bucks) and just re-release the original. It's the only version of the story people are going to remember anyway.
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But I'd still prefer a film closer to the original books. Like 'Return to Oz' was.
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I don't know where these creative geniuses get their fascinating perspectives.
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THE ORIGINAL MOVIE IS STILL GREAT - MY DAUGHTER LOVES IT. AND IF YOU GET VERY DRUNK AND WATCH THE DWARF SCENES IT IS VERY FREAKY INDEED.
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. . . please go to your nearest bookstore and look at ALLLLL the so far unadapted fantasy literature.
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just sayin'
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No it ain't cool. What about that Downey jr. Oz flick???
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You can tell this was done by someone who hasn't even read the source material. The citizens of the Emerald City all had to wear green glasses, supposedly to protect their eyes. But it was because the city wasn't actually Emerald at all.
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Disney may keep changing the law to keep mickey mouse under copyright, but Oz is older than mickey. It fell into the public domain long ago, and so Hollywood (cheap as fuck as they are) doesn't have to pay anyone to use the source material.
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The castle exterior really is too obvious a design except for the fact that the previous t'backers are right: it does look like penises. I'm not trying to be a dick here, but what are they thinking? The second pic, however, the interior and the Wizard, is spot on. There's a strong sense of mood and character to that image. Very cool. But for the exterior, it would be nice if they found a way to honor the old designs while giving us something new and something that doesn't look like a bunch of erect dicks.
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I love the moment of their death when I am one with ZARDOZ.
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the Emerald City is not green? Wasn't the point in the books that the city was as much a fraud as the wizard?
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..now, just spread your legs three times...
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You can't lose with Kelsey Grammar & Patrick Stewart but... Aykroyd? The lesser Belushi? Some flash-in-a-pan for Dorothy? And... sorry, Martin Short, but for some reason you never end up in a good project. I am afraid. Very afraid.
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based on the action figures by McFarlerne Toys? Rated X? XXX?
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My wife sat on that thing last night...she came 5 times and then baked me a lasagna...
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Wicked put up on the big screen. It was a fantastic book. Third one sucked though, maybe they could just skip that one if the movie rights get optioned
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superior to everyone else and battling the tabernacle for ultimate knowledge, including time distortion secrets even more
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Dear God, that man is a cancer
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seems like an odd way to confuse everybody
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It had ten times the intellectual content of even the best sci-fi made today, and it certainly has an epic sweep.Perhaps all the wild 70's sex can be done in 3d; especially since Zed feels guilt afterwards, making it politically correct.
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I love the OZ series and Journeys and Wonderful Wizard are still my favorites. If they followed these books it would be a wonderful freaking head trip, dark and yet fun for all. but THAT will never happen.
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At least Return To Oz made the characters look FAMILIAR and based them off the art from the books.
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Not very fresh looking or interesting.
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The Wiz, and Wicked aren't enough, we need MORE Wizard of OZ musicals! <BR> If you have to do OZ, why not do another OZ story? There's like 30 of them!
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That's a great book and a great Broadway production. And I don't understand this concept art. Why make the city look exactly like the 1939 production but make the characters look so different. Looks like they have no particular direction for the movie.
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i wish they still actually built this stuff
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So, there's a Jester that takes over Oz? I'll assume that's Marty Short, there. I assume Aykroyd and Belushi will sing a BLUES song together. Blech.
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How???
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Because there were dozens of books set in "Oz", and "The Wizard Of Oz" is only one of them. Its a rich tapestry of stories and characters. They are not remaking the Judy Garland movie. There's room for interpretation here.
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Sorry, dude. The other one is currently unavailable for voice work.
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How many cheetoh crumbs did you spray your monitor with while wheezing and stabbing your orange-stained fingers at the keyboard to create your lates "IDIOTS!" missive?
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While Darth Busey went a bit of the top in his reaction, they guy has a point. We've 50 posts screaming for hell fire and damnation because "how dare they remake The Wizard of Oz" when the reality is, this is a sequel written many years later by Baum's great grandson. It's a unique story we've never seen before, set in a widely beloved universe. That's alright by me.
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Looks like i'm not the only one who thinks so either.
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I see castles.
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Dark Side of the Moon can be played while watching this one too. Than I will watch this in Hippie Mode.
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Don't worry, you weren't the only ones.
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General Jinjur's Army would be pretty cool to see on the big screen. Just get dozens of the hottest actresses you can find.
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as well as that other Oz adaptation with Robert Downey Jr as the Wizard, this one, and John Boorman's...although Boorman is currently listed as directing Memoirs of Hadrian this year.
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Sorry. But it does.
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The last high profile film he made was Tailor of Panama 9 years ago.
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Looks like the Scarecrow has been usurped by some Wizard-wannabe called the Jester (Short). He, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are MIA, so Dorothy returns to help find 'em, with the help of Marshal Mallow (from Candy County), a China Princess (from China Country) and a tug boat with Dissociative Identity Disorder.<p> Actually seems to have the Oz spirit right (I read all Baum's books), unlike Gregory Maguire's drearily realistic WICKED book series (luckily, the musical fixed that). Naturally enough, though, I wonder why they didn't just adapt LAND OF OZ, which is presumably copyright exempt at this point...I'd love to see hordes of buxom farmgirls overrunning Emerald City, myself...
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...............................................................................................why?
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I'll slam most straight up remakes of "classic" films as much as anybody else here. But as the website states, this is NOT a remake, but a continuation of the Wizard of Oz story. If you want to shit on the sequel idea, that's cool, but IMO its 70 years later and I'm not opposed to somebody else playing in that universe.
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Nov. 4, 2010, 8:06 p.m. CST
You had me until Music by Bryan Fuckin' Adams?? Sweet Jesus.
by tiggr009
That's how to fuck all credibility.
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I don't think that another Oz movie can be very successful. The 1939 movie has left such an indelible imprint on so many millions (billions, possibly?) that any deviation would not be totally welcomed by the masses. Judy Garland was Dorothy. Anyone else would seem an imposter, even in CGI.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cq9yEVcGIU&feature=related
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written in 1989 by Roger Baum L. Frank's great grandson -- http://tinyurl.com/245ste3
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Anyone play that DS game? Only it was released under WB's interactive label with the "Wizard of OZ" title. It's quite different, where all four witches are based on the four seasons (The one from the West is actually this hot, tropical Goddess) and Dorothy is a teenage girl. And also plenty of kitty cats. Now, if the film had that as well...
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Don't know why a studio doesn't treat Oz more like a Harry Potter property and just do straight-up adaptations, using John R. Neill's illustrations as definitive character designs a la "Return to Oz." Instead it's just lame reimagining after lame reimagining with shitty effects and ridiculous scripts, and lame cartoon after lame cartoon that recycles stuff from the MGM musical.
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