Remaking "The Wizard Of Oz'

[Ragingblues]

As if this is some sort of surprise... they are now going to be remaking "The Wizard Of Oz":

Warner Bros. Plans Wizard of Oz Remake

www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=71708



Warner Bros. has plans to move forward with a remake of the classic The Wizard of Oz, reports Deadline.

Planning to shoot from the script to the 1939 version (which, though it is by far the best known, wasn't the first filmic iteration of the L. Frank Baum story), WB is said to be in talks with Robert Zemeckis to helm the property.

Zemeckis, meanwhile, is currently working on a performance-capture remake of The Beatles animated film, Yellow Submarine and was announced to make a return to live action with a time travel story, Timeless (though that has been called into some question with the news that Phillip Noyce is now attached to potentially the same project.

Warner Bros. version of The Wizard of Oz would go up against Disney's planned Oz-prequel, Oz, the Great and Powerful, in development now with Sam Raimi attached to direct.

Summertime Entertainment, meanwhile, has planned an animated sequel to the original Oz tale entitled Dorothy of Oz, planned for release next year.


Yet more proof that Hollywood has spun completely out of control and in the process, lost the ability to accept new and original script ideas. Why take a gamble on the unknown when you can simply remake a classic movie in the hopes of having a "built in audience"?



Aside from the fact that most of these remakes are completely unwarranted, much of the assumed "built in audience" is automatically offended by the idea of a remake anyway.

The madness continues..... and yes folks, one day in the not so distant future... they will remake "Raiders of The Lost Ark" as well.


Ken

[Noah]

Please, don't do a remake of The Wizard of Oz! Intolerable. I think I even heard someone say on AMC a while ago that if a remake was made, they hoped it would fail. It's a classic, it doesn't need to be remade.

[Pennsylvania Jones]

Please, no more remakes of well-known movies! I'm actually beginning to feel bad about thinking about a Scamper the Penguin remake. But... The original was pretty juvinile anyway. And virtually nobody knows about that movie but me.

Anyway, the Muppet Wizard of Oz was bad enough, how bad do they think this one will be?

And... Why not just re-release or re-advertise the original and save a lot of money?

Steven

[imtheflash]

Good points from all you guys. Whats rather ironic i find is that there really hadn't been a movie like Oz, Raiders, Superman, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, The Boondock Saints and so on... they were ORIGIONAL! They caught people off gaurd and people really connected with it.. It is hard to try and capture spontanious fire, you just have to go for it and take the chance with origional ideas. You can only rely on an audience for so long.