Warner Bros. to Turn All 15 Oz Books Into Movies

Lucas123 writes "After purchasing the rights to the Oz books from Ted Turner Warner Bros., along with Village Roadshow Pictures, will be taking Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's idea to produce movies based on the Oz books. They've obtained the rights to the 14 titles written by 'The Wizard of Oz' author L. Frank Baum, as well as the the fifteenth book ('The Royal Book of Oz'), written by Ruth Plumly Thompson. Screen Writer John Olson's 'vision is of a bit tamer PG movie and hopefully the two can find some middle ground of compromise that will please them both and not hurt the final product.'"

How many?

[Anonymous Coward]

All 15 ounce books? I have no idea how many movies that would be?

What about the 1 pound books?

[EmbeddedJanitor]

Weight discrimination again!

15oz. books?

[fatblunt]

Why make books that weigh almost one pound into movies?

wtf

[User 956]

After purchasing the rights to the Oz books from Ted Turner Warner Bros., along with Village Roadshow Pictures, will be taking Spawn creator Todd McFarlane's idea to produce movies based on the Oz books.

Excellent! And perhaps they might even be able to get Uwe Boll to direct!

Re:Public Domain

[TheRealMindChild]

You mean like Mickey Mouse, created at least 30 years before hand is in the Public Domain...

Missing some of the review

[fireboy1919]

"McFarlane has a vision of Oz that is a dark, edgy and muscular PG-13, without a singing Munchkin in sight," wrote journalist Michael Fleming. "That was clear with a toy line he launched several years ago that featured a buxom Dorothy and Toto re-imagined as an over-sized snarling warthog.

Olson's vision is of a bit tamer PG movie and hopefully the two can find some middle ground of compromise that will please them both and not hurt the final product.

This was missing from the end:
McFarlane and Olson are also planning on releasing a new hip, edgy version of the Care Bears based mostly on Sin City. The "Care Bear Stare" will be reimagined as beam weapons mounted on the bears heads that melt off peoples faces. A sequel of "Milo and Otis" set twenty years later is also scheduled as the newest spin on "Pet Cemetary."

While nothing else is really complete, these two want to assure you that the plan to replace every warm, fuzzy childhood story with nightmarish tales so that you'll lose all sense of past and therefore be willing to watch anything is proceeding according to plan and scheduled to be complete by the year 2015.

Re:Missing some of the review

[Mad Bad Rabbit]

Maybe McFarlane was influenced by the Marin Independent Journal's movie synopsis:

"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman, then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."

Re:Oh, real tough getting (copyright/trademark)

[WillAffleckUW]

Given that the title includes the word Oz, that is unlikely to be much of a barrier.

They could always call it 0Z (chr(13)) instead and it would ... look like Oz, but would be more like the original typeface that more resembled a zero plus Z.

Re:Aren't they in the public domain?

[flu1d]

Quiet man, I'm trying to sell them some more public domain stuff.

Converting 13.125 pounds of books into movies.

[Anonymous Coward]

how many movies per pound?

FTA

[Farmer Tim]

"Dorothy as some bondage queen isn't something I want to do," Olson told Fleming.

He can speak for himself. Red thigh-high stiletto boots work magic for me!

Re:How many?

[dr_dank]

Just the important ones.

Deep voice movie announcer guy

This summer...

WHOOSH

There is another word for EXCITEMENT!

Roget's Thesaurus: The Motion Picture

Sooo....

[qzulla]

Do you think they can get Pink Floyd for the sound track?

qz

Re:15oz. books?

[PopeRatzo]

It worked for War and Peace

That movie sucked. The war part was cool, but the whole peace bit got a bit slow at the end.

Re:FTA

[Anonymous Coward]

Strawberry Shortcake [collarpurple.com] for me, thank you very much.

Authentic, I hope.

[Cjays]

I'd love to see an authentic depiction of the story rated at least PG-13. I want see the woodsman get hacked to pieces with his enchanted axe (cursed by the Wicked Witch of the East) before being rebuilt as the Tin Man. I want to see the Lion fight off the tiger-bear beasts and kill the giant spider. I want to see the Tin Man slaughter the 40 wolves of the Witch, and the Scarecrow wring the necks of the 40 crows. It would have been cool to see Tim Burton make this. Johnny Depp could have played one of the flying monkeys.

Re:American McGee

[jkoke]

I'm thinking they will be quite different, since American's adaptation is based on a book by Lewis Carroll, called Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and this story is about an adaptation of books written by L. Frank Baum, beginning with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Re:What about the 1 pound books?

[stonedcat]

.....of what? prevention of fucking what? are you high?

Re:Wow

[Anonymous Coward]

Your comment was funnier, as well...

Oh well, you can't please the Asperger's support group otherwise known as Slashdot mods.

Re:So what you're telling me...

[geobeck]

It was a miracle that Lord of the Rings didn't suck, but the truth is that it was far from perfect...

At least they didn't turn it into a musical (wrong Jackson for that). They would have had to extend it out to about 14 hours, and have shrieking breastplated women on horses, the hero singing to his sword, supernatural beings crooning while leaving the world...

Wait a sec... didn't someone already do that [wikipedia.org]?

15 Oz Books?

[AikonMGB]

I was definitely confused as to what the books' weights had to do with anything...

Aikon-

Re:How many?

[clickety6]

Shouldn't that be:

Roget's Thesaurus: The Motion Picture, Feature Film, Movie, Moving Picture, Flick, Cinematic Entertainment

Re:How many?

[louzerr]

Glad to see I wasn't the only one initially confused by the posting's title.

I guess I can find out exactly what Oz is, if I can weight for the movie. (there goes any Karma I had ...)

Re:What about the 1 pound books?

[spun]

An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure, man. Everyone knows that.