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Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies
Lucas123 writes "After purchasing the rights to the Oz books from Ted Turner Warner Bros., along with Village Roadshow Pictures, will be taking Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's idea to produce movies based on the Oz books. They've obtained the rights to the 14 titles written by 'The Wizard of Oz' author L. Frank Baum, as well as the the fifteenth book ('The Royal Book of Oz'), written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Screen Writer John Olson's 'vision is of a bit tamer PG movie and hopefully the two can find some middle ground of compromise that will please them both and not hurt the final product.'"
All 15 ounce books? I have no idea how many movies that would be?
Weight discrimination again!
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Why make books that weigh almost one pound into movies?
After purchasing the rights to the Oz books from Ted Turner Warner Bros., along with Village Roadshow Pictures, will be taking Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's idea to produce movies based on the Oz books.
Excellent! And perhaps they might even be able to get Uwe Boll to direct!
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You mean like Mickey Mouse, created at least 30 years before hand is in the Public Domain...
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Olson's vision is of a bit tamer PG movie and hopefully the two can find some middle ground of compromise that will please them both and not hurt the final product. This was missing from the end:
McFarlane and Olson are also planning on releasing a new hip, edgy version of the Care Bears based mostly on Sin City. The "Care Bear Stare" will be reimagined as beam weapons mounted on the bears heads that melt off peoples faces. A sequel of "Milo and Otis" set twenty years later is also scheduled as the newest spin on "Pet Cemetary."
While nothing else is really complete, these two want to assure you that the plan to replace every warm, fuzzy childhood story with nightmarish tales so that you'll lose all sense of past and therefore be willing to watch anything is proceeding according to plan and scheduled to be complete by the year 2015.
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Given that the title includes the word Oz, that is unlikely to be much of a barrier.
... look like Oz, but would be more like the original typeface that more resembled a zero plus Z.
They could always call it 0Z (chr(13)) instead and it would
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Quiet man, I'm trying to sell them some more public domain stuff.
how many movies per pound?
"Dorothy as some bondage queen isn't something I want to do," Olson told Fleming.
He can speak for himself. Red thigh-high stiletto boots work magic for me!
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Do you think they can get Pink Floyd for the sound track?
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I'd love to see an authentic depiction of the story rated at least PG-13. I want see the woodsman get hacked to pieces with his enchanted axe (cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East) before being rebuilt as the Tin Man. I want to see the Lion fight off the tiger-bear beasts and kill the giant spider. I want to see the Tin Man slaughter the 40 wolves of the Witch, and the Scarecrow wring the necks of the 40 crows. It would have been cool to see Tim Burton make this. Johnny Depp could have played one of the flying monkeys.
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I'm thinking they will be quite different, since American's adaptation is based on a book by Lewis Carroll, called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and this story is about an adaptation of books written by L. Frank Baum, beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Your comment was funnier, as well...
Oh well, you can't please the Asperger's support group otherwise known as Slashdot mods.
At least they didn't turn it into a musical (wrong Jackson for that). They would have had to extend it out to about 14 hours, and have shrieking breastplated women on horses, the hero singing to his sword, supernatural beings crooning while leaving the world...
Wait a sec... didn't someone already do that?
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I was definitely confused as to what the books' weights had to do with anything...
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