I support this, but here's what I think: There's already a fairly successful movie of The Wizard of Oz. I think a movie of "the Land of Oz" or "Ozma of Oz" cuold be even more successful.
I support you 100% I also was thinking of a story about Oz does make a perfect movie or play (whichever comes first) so I hope that you reach your goal and that will see this movie in theaters soon
I would love to see a new OZ movie as long as it was exactly like the original Baum book. Following his story perfectly including all of the dialog. I would love to see all of the Baum Oz books made into movies as long as they were exactly like the book. Even animated movies would be great somethine well done by Pixar would be awesome. Even a cartoon would be good as long as it followed the books exactly. I have no interest at all in a movie that isnt just like the books.
I love the Oz books nearly to the point of obsession, but I dispise the original Judy Garland version because of it's inability to stay true to the book. I would love to see a faithful Oz movie I could really get into!
I would love to see a new Oz film. It is not as popular to children as it once was. They are more into the modern stuff, you know. I would love to see the movie made like it was written. It was written as a story about a little girl who finds herself in an alienated world that seems nice, but is full of danger. New technology can help this movie very well. Peter Pan was wonderfully done, and I think Wizard of Oz would be even better. But I think an unknown should be Dorothy. I wouldn't want to see it with Dakota Fanning, or Johnny Depp. It would get too commercial-ized that way. But Any way, I hope this film happens.
i coulddn't agree more. a new oz film for this generation would be amazing. I feel that we are at a time where would could get the mvoie done right, with more of a harry potter feel to it.
It has been my dream for a few years now, to make it as a hollywood film-maker for the sole purpose of making an Oz film series. I have been in love with the world since I was a child, and I know it can be done as a stylized period-type fantasy. I'm sick of all these adaptions of the musical, and various poorly made cartoons. Return to Oz was fantastic, but not true enough.
i too think that there should be a new oz film. its been to long since the last one. this time it should have a realistic theme to it and i want to be a part of it because i have tons of ideas. i have been writing my own small oz stories since i was about 13 years old, and i would appriciate it if people could respond to me and let me know if i should have a publisher look at it or not because i have had others that have read it that they were good and should be published. but i need more outside opinions. so lets help eachother out guys. thanks
i too think that there should be a new oz film. its been to long since the last one. this time it should have a realistic theme to it and i want to be a part of it because i have tons of ideas. i have been writing my own small oz stories since i was about 13 years old, and i would appriciate it if people could respond to me and let me know if i should have a publisher look at it or not because i have had others that have read it that they were good and should be published. but i need more outside opinions. so lets help eachother out guys. thanks
because I believe now is the right time for a new oz movie. It would be great if it could just be given to the right director and screenwriter (maybe the same as the Harry Potter movies). It would likely be very successful with the use of today's special effects, animatronics, and perhaps CGI. Though there are some things in the original book and its sequels that just wouldn't work for today's audiances and some changes will likely need to be done along with it.
Wonderful Wizard of Oz needs to be re-done. Return to Oz was wonderful, an Oz gem. They should definatly do it in a 1900's style, not 1939, not a musical and just...YES IN EVERY SINGLE WAY!
I support this petition because as delightful as the MGM musical is, it has done a lot of damage to people's perceptions of Oz in general and Dorothy in particular (and don't even get me started on this wretched thing called "Wicked"). It's time to set the record straight and for people to hear the "true" story. Baum's book, as written, has stood firm as the most famous American children's story for over a century, and now that moviemaking technology had finally caught up with the Royal Historian's imagination, it's high time Baum's Oz (which hitherto has been most closely reproduced in 1985's "Return to Oz") becomes as familiar as the MGM version.
I think it is not only a wonderful idea to have a new "wizard of oz", but it is an ETHICAL idea, for no one can be so stupid as to not know that there ever was a book
because this would really take the entertainment industry by storm...and professionally look very good even to Warner Borthers. Baum's books even more so "THE WIZARD OF OZ" need to be brought back to the screen in a LIVE action movie, with a tornado, everything!!
-Aaron Pacentine, videosforfamily.com
It has been OVER 100 Years since the original book was first published in 1900 (it's now mid-2006) and still we haven't had a major feature-length FAITHFUL motion-picture adaptation of the orginal story. There SHOULD be a new movie based on the book focusing only on L. Frank Baum's writing of the adventures of little (6 yr old) Dorothy and Toto, paying homage to other previous Oz films and NOT MGM - therefore having no singing characters or MGM repeats - AT ALL!!! I would love to see 'Away to the South' filmed at last!! With a proper cast!
I think this needs to be done in due course. The MGM version is very problematic as an adaptation, as popular and enjoyable as it is.
My Suggestions:
By L. Frank Baum:
The Magical Monarch of Mo: David Cronenberg
1. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Scott Reynolds
Dot and Tot of Merryland: Martha Coolidge
The Master Key: Shekhar Kapur
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus: Sally Potter
The Enchanted Island of Yew: Terry Gilliam
2. The Marvelous Land of Oz: Julie Taymor
Queen Zixi of Ix: W.D. Richter
John Dough and the Cherub: Martin Scorsese
3. Ozma of Oz: Agnès Varda
4. Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz: Sam Raimi
5. The Road to Oz: Hark Tsui
6. The Emerald City of Oz: Alfonso Cuarón
The Sea Fairies: Michael Oblowitz
Sky Island: Charles Sturridge
7. The Patchwork Girl of Oz: George Clooney
8. Tik-Tok of Oz: Jean-Luc Godard
9. The Scarecrow of Oz: Peter Greenaway
10. Rinkitink in Oz: Peter Jackson
11. The Lost Princess of Oz: David Lynch
12. The Tin Woodman of Oz: Scott Andrew Hutchins
13. The Magic of Oz: Christophe Gans
14. Glinda of Oz: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
By Ruth Plumly Thompson
15. The Royal Book of Oz: Kar-Wai Wong
16. Kabumpo in Oz: Steve Barron
17. The Cowardly Lion of Oz: Tim Burton
18. Grampa in Oz: Anthony Minghella
19. The Lost King of Oz: Gillian Armstrong
20. The Hungry Tiger of Oz: Walter Salles
21. The Gnome King of Oz: John Woo
22. The Giant Horse of Oz: Michel Gondry
23. Jack Pumpkinhead of Oz: Neil Jordan
24. The Yellow Knight of Oz: Francis Ford Coppola
25. Pirates in Oz: Peter Weir
26. The Purple Prince of Oz: Joel Coen
27. Ojo in Oz: Willard Carroll
28. Speedy in Oz: Steven Spielberg
29. The Wishing Horse of Oz: M. Night Shyamalan
30. Captain Salt in Oz: Julie Dash
31. Handy Mandy in Oz: Jane Campion
32. The Silver Princess in Oz: Spike Lee
33. Ozoplaning with the Wizard of Oz: Joe Johnston
By John R. Neill:
34. The Wonder City of Oz: Michael Moore
35. The Scalawagons of Oz: John Sayles
36. Lu
I would love to see a whole series of Oz movies!
People just don't realize how good the books get after the Wizard of Oz. sadly several books would have to be skipped or combined i'm sure, but at least do the major ones by Baum, wizard,land, ozma,road,emerald city, and then maybe the more darker ones like magic and glinda. The world was ready for narnia and Middle earth, I say it's ready for OZ!!!!
