Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Wednesday August 22, 2007 @10:31AM 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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Re:Public Domain by fm6 · 2007-08-22 11:41 · Score: 5, Informative
It's yet another sloppy summary of TFA, which mentions two distinct facts:
- Warner plans to adapt all 15 books.
- Warner bought the rights to the 1939 movie from Ted Turner. (Actually, they bought Ted Turner's whole media operation, which happened to include his film library, which happened to include this movie. This happened over 10 years ago; it's connection with this announcement isn't clear.)
The writer of the TFA was a little sloppy, and the submitter was very sloppy, so of course the facts got a bit jumbled. Welcome to Slashdot.