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Hey folks, Harry here... Sci Fi Channel has an original Miniseries, TIN MAN set to debut this Sunday, December 2nd at 9 Eastern/8 Central. I know next to nothing about this upcoming show... other than poking around their website, but I've always found OZ adaptations to be fascinating. My favorite being RETURN TO OZ - while my nostalgic fave being, of course - the Judy Garland classic. BUT - I still hold that we've never seen Baum done right. I'm not saying or pretending to hope this will be that.
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I am – Hercules!!
“Tin Man” is a SciFi miniseries, loosely based on Lyman Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz,” from the veteran TV writing team of Craig W. Van Sickle and Steven Long Mitchell (“The Pretender,” “She Spies”).
It’s about a Kansas girl named “DG” who finds herself transported to a surreal and dangerous alternate dimension called “The Outer Zone.” It stars Zooey Deschanel as “DG,” Neal McDonough as titular character “Cain,” Alan Cumming as the brain-deficient “Glitch,” Raul Trujillo as the hairy telepath “Raw,” Kathleen Robertson as the wicked “Azkadellia,” and Richard Dreyfuss as the great and powerful “Mystic Man.”
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Zooey Deschanel (“The Bridge to Terabithia”) will play the Dorothy Gale surrogate opposite Alan Cumming, long cast as the Scarecrow surrogate in the six-hour SciFi miniseries “Tin Man.”
It’s from the Robert Halmis, who are also behind SciFi’s upcoming “Flash Gordon” series.
Read more of it here.
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Merrick here...
The Sci Fi Channel is "reimagining" THE WIZARD OF OZ. You know...because "reimagining" THE WIZARD OF OZ worked out so well with THE WIZ and all. For the moment, it's being called TIN MAN and it's a miniseries.
Here's what they're threatening:
The miniseries is a sometimes psychedelic, often twisted and always bizarre take on The Wizard of Oz. It centers on DG, a young woman plucked from her humdrum life and thrust into The Outer Zone (the O.Z.), a fantastical realm filled with wonder, but oppressed by dark magic. DG discovers her true identity, battles evil winged monkey-bats and attempts to fulfill her destiny. Her perilous journey begins on the fabled Old Road that leads to a wizard known as the Mystic Man. Along the way, she is joined by "Glitch," an odd man missing half his brain; "Raw," a quietly powerful wolverine-like creature longing for inner courage; and "Cain," a heroic former policeman (known in the O.Z. as a "Tin Man"), who is seeking vengeance for his scarred heart. Ultimately, DG's destiny leads her to a showdown with the wicked sorceress Azkadellia, whose ties to DG are closer than anyone could have imagined.
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