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'Wizard of Oz' to be re-made 'nastier'
Published Wednesday, Aug 22 2007, 15:02 BST | By Kimberley Dadds
Warner Brothers and Village Roadshow Pictures have decided to team up and re-make children's classic movie The Wizard of Oz, but make it a grittier and nastier version.
Josh Olson, the screenwriter for A History of Violence, pitched the idea for the new film and teamed up with producer Todd McFarlane to make it more like a PG certificate rather than a U.
McFarlane told Variety: "How do we get people who went to The Lord of the Rings to embrace this?
"You've still got Dorothy trapped in an odd place, but she's much closer to Ripley from Alien than a helpless singing girl."
Josh Olson, the screenwriter for A History of Violence, pitched the idea for the new film and teamed up with producer Todd McFarlane to make it more like a PG certificate rather than a U.
McFarlane told Variety: "How do we get people who went to The Lord of the Rings to embrace this?
"You've still got Dorothy trapped in an odd place, but she's much closer to Ripley from Alien than a helpless singing girl."
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