{"id":413475,"date":"2010-03-10T19:13:53","date_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/?p=96112"},"modified":"2010-03-10T19:13:53","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T00:13:53","slug":"%e2%80%9cthe-wizard-of-oz%e2%80%9d-remake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/413475","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe Wizard Of Oz\u201d Remake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.popcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/The-Wizard-Of-Oz-Remake-500x365.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The Wizard Of Oz Remake\" width=\"500\" height=\"365\" class=\"alignright size-large wp-image-96114\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Here are two things that should never be mentioned in the same sentence: &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; and &#8220;Remake.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/movies\/2010\/03\/wizard-of-oz-remake-new-dorothy.html\">Word on the Hot Wire<\/a> claims there are currently two treatments of the 1939 cinema classic being shopped around Tinseltown. <\/p>\n<p>Originality is dead&#8230;along with chivalry and fidelity.  <span id=\"more-96112\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first is called <em>Oz<\/em> &#8212; housed by New Line Cinemas &#8212; it is being produced by Temple Hill, one of the companies behind the immensely-popular <em>Twilight<\/em> franchise. Darren Lemke, who helped pen <em>Shrek Forever After<\/em>, has been commissioned by New Line to work on the script. A second script for a possibly new <em>Wizard<\/em> is also being considered by Warner Bros, which launched the career of Hollywood icon Judy Garland when it released the original film more than 70 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Not much is known about the plot of either script,  but do we really need a crystal ball to see how this travesty would turn out?  And I don&#8217;t think they can pay anyone enough to put on that ridiculous Cowardly Lion costume&#8230;..except maybe Dane Cook or one of The Jonas Brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Hollywood&#8217;s already attempted two sequels to the timeless motion picture; the animated <em>Journey Back to Oz<\/em> in 1974 and one live action update <em>Return to Oz<\/em> in 1985. Both were critical and commercial failures.<\/p>\n<p>Would you like to see a remake of <em>The Wizard of Oz<\/em>? <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OfVn-36PhyTBWPLznZbaLV85qIM\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OfVn-36PhyTBWPLznZbaLV85qIM\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OfVn-36PhyTBWPLznZbaLV85qIM\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/OfVn-36PhyTBWPLznZbaLV85qIM\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here are two things that should never be mentioned in the same sentence: &#8220;The Wizard of Oz&#8221; and &#8220;Remake.&#8221; Word on the Hot Wire claims there are currently two treatments of the 1939 cinema classic being shopped around Tinseltown. Originality is dead&#8230;along with chivalry and fidelity. The first is called Oz &#8212; housed by New [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5335,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-413475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5335"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}