According to Deadline, Disney made a deal last night with Sam Raimi (who last dropped out of Sony’s Spider-Man 4, prompting them to greenlight a muppet-babies reboot of the whole franchise) to direct a 3D prequel to Wizard of Oz. In other news, every time I type “3D prequel to Wizard of Oz” I feel like my nose should be in a pile of cocaine.
It’s a coup for new studio bosses Rich Ross and Sean Bailey, who are rolling the dice big-time by hoping that this pic will be a global hit like the billion-dollar-grossing Alice In Wonderland. Downey will play the Wizard Of Oz before he became the Wizard Of Oz circa the 1939 iconic film: he’s in fact a circus wrangler transported by tornado to the mysterious world of Oz where he gets mistaken for a know-it-all. Now the only question is whether Sam Raimi can do what Tim Burton just did.
Dear Sam Raimi: Please do NOT do what Tim Burton just did. Anyway, knowing Raimi’s filming origin stories for all the Oz characters just makes me hope he’ll go back to Evil Dead/Drag Me to Hell mode and shoot a scene where Robert Downey RIPS OUT A LION’S F*CKING HEART!! OOH WAH-AH AH AH!
Yeah… That would be pretty boss. (*spits Skoal into Gatorade bottle, adjusts crotch*)
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I heard in the prequel, the Tin Man has a chainsaw for a hand.
This movie’s gonna Baum at the box office.
The scene where the Lollipop guild gets raped by the talking trees is symbolic of the gold standard and the suppression of the silver standard.
Well, it wouldn’t be the first time a bunch of people put a guy in charge who was well-spoken, had tentative ties to Kansas, was of mysterious origin, and had previous experience being black.
It would just be the first time the Electoral College wasn’t involved.
Ridiculous. They’d realize it if they only had brains.
I didn’t know that Robert Downey Jr’s father even acted.
Rich Ross should stick to hustlin’ hustlin’ hustlin’
He does. I, for one, would love to see his take on this. His performance as Judge Anderson on Matlock was a game-changer.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0002049/
In 3D, the hanging midgets just pop right out at you.
Will the Tin Man origin story involve Islamofascist Terrorists in the desert?
I’m fine with prequels and sequels but mark my words, the day some Fuckwad Asshat Douchenozzle Hollytard Exec greenlights a remake of The Wizard of Oz is the day I start reading books.
That Dorothy/Downey photoshop is creeping me the fuck out.
Steve Buscemi is still mulling over accepting the part of Toto the Dog-Faced Boy.
He’ll never go full wizard.
Mark my words:
The film will be in 2-D at the beginning, and when Downey lands in Oz, everything will be blurry. He will reach down and pick up his spectacles -our signal to put ours on as well -and BAM, 3-D.
Morty, that’s fucking brilliant. You really should be working in Hollywood, not Taco Bell.
JHC, you might be surprised at just how far into real film production my suggestions go.
No more origin stories. If they don’t involve penis and vagina they’re just not that interesting.
Poppies make you sleep.
In a strange underage girl’s bed.
@Morton, I’ve seen some of your work, the suggestion to distract that hooker with a fake $50 while Fek snuck behind her with the scythe was inspired.
I’ve already seen the prequel to Wizard of Oz. It stars Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton.
This whole project is pointless. No one can ever top the performance Nipsey Russell gave in “The Wiz.”
As long as Russell Brand gets thrown in here somewhere…