Yale doctoral candidate and award-nominated entertainment blogger James Franco stars in the just-released trailer for Oz, the Great and Powerful, from Sam Raimi. Franco, in the Johnny Depp role, plays a Kansas magician who gets transported to the mythical land of Oz, where the inhabitants come to believe he’s a great wizard come to save them. Will he succeed, or will he dicknose them all?
When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot–fame and fortune are his for the taking–that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity–and even a bit of wizardry–Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well. [Apple]
FRANCO: Okay, so it turns out I’m not a great wizard. But I still think I can help you!
OZ-PEOPLE: Well if you’re not a wizard, what are you? How will you help us?
FRANCO: I’m a performance artist! I can take you on a trip inside your mind, help you ponder the unponderable!
(*straps dick to his face, strips naked, rides in circles on a BMX carving “BRAD RENFRO” into his arm*)
OZ-PEOPLE: Ugh, let’s get out of here, this is getting sad.
FRANCO: BUT YOU HAVEN’T EVEN READ MY THEEESIIIIISSS….
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So, it appears from the final screen cap that the flying monkeys of the 1939 version have been replaced with flying sea monkeys? How post-modern.
It looks like a badass baboon with wings I would like to see more of.
The screen cap is some other creature. Pause the trailer at 2:19
Someone got Sam Raimi in my Terry Gilliam. Tim Burton in my peanut butter? I’m hungry but not for this.
Reminds me of a naked Rachel Maddow, slightly intriguing, but shamefully awful.
WHEELERS OR GET THE FUCK OUT
+1000. Return to Oz ruled.
Two great actors who made horrible life decisions. Franco is a terrible person in real life and Kunis is involved with a less skilled version of him.
So since when are the three witches hot bitches?
What, you never saw Hocus Pocus with Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy….uh….okay, you got me there, never mind.
Witches of Eastwick.
SO MANY HATS!!!
That was really intriguing until the battle part. Why must there be a battle? I hope they used real dwarves and not CGI, unless all the dwarves are Peter Dinklage.
Some hipster douche is going to spend countless hours investigating which Bon Iver album this movie syncs up with.
Heyyyy, where did my “Dicknose is a Hollow Weenie” comment go? Too subversive?
WE CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH! I sure can’t.
(‘The Truth’ is the name of his dicknose. So meta.)
I bet he tells a lot of people that he always picks the truth in private.
That’s PHD Candidate Dicknose to you, Mancini
I’ve considered Vince as the Skip Bayless of James Franco news, but it seems like he may be coming around.
The wizard was kind of a dicknose. Casting actually seems not bad. Nice to see a not-musical version of the Oz stories.
From the director of the SPIDERMAN TRILOGY… you know, the one who put the naturally goblin-esque Willem Dafoe in a Power Ranger suit and crapped all over his work with the 3rd installment.