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Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the high-probability-of-sucking dept.

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.'"

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  1. How many? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    All 15 ounce books? I have no idea how many movies that would be?

    1. Re:How many? by dr_dank · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just the important ones.

      Deep voice movie announcer guy

      This summer...

      WHOOSH

      There is another word for EXCITEMENT!

      Roget's Thesaurus: The Motion Picture

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    2. Re:How many? by clickety6 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Shouldn't that be:

      Roget's Thesaurus: The Motion Picture, Feature Film, Movie, Moving Picture, Flick, Cinematic Entertainment

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    3. Re:How many? by louzerr · · Score: 3, Funny

      Glad to see I wasn't the only one initially confused by the posting's title.

      I guess I can find out exactly what Oz is, if I can weight for the movie. (there goes any Karma I had ...)

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  2. What about the 1 pound books? by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 4, Funny

    Weight discrimination again!

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    1. Re:What about the 1 pound books? by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

      An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, man. Everyone knows that.

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  3. wtf by User+956 · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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  4. Missing some of the review by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    "McFarlane has a vision of Oz that is a dark, edgy and muscular PG-13, without a singing Munchkin in sight," wrote journalist Michael Fleming. "That was clear with a toy line he launched several years ago that featured a buxom Dorothy and Toto re-imagined as an over-sized snarling warthog.

    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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    1. Re:Missing some of the review by Mad+Bad+Rabbit · · Score: 4, Funny

      Maybe McFarlane was influenced by the Marin Independent Journal's movie synopsis:

      "Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."

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  5. Re:Aren't they in the public domain? by flu1d · · Score: 4, Funny

    Quiet man, I'm trying to sell them some more public domain stuff.

  6. FTA by Farmer+Tim · · Score: 4, Funny

    "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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  7. Sooo.... by qzulla · · Score: 3, Funny

    Do you think they can get Pink Floyd for the sound track?

    qz

  8. Re:15oz. books? by PopeRatzo · · Score: 3, Funny

    It worked for War and Peace
    That movie sucked. The war part was cool, but the whole peace bit got a bit slow at the end.
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  9. Authentic, I hope. by Cjays · · Score: 3, Funny

    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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