Remake happening
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This could be great. I expect to see some great CGI characters instead of men dressed in silly outfits
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MovieChat Forums > The Wizard of Oz (1939) Discussion > Remake happening
So it's going to be 'The Wiz 2.0' then (and little else?)
shareWith trans and gays too. You're discriminating by not including them in your comment. Bigot.
shareThe Wiz was just not that good. In fact it was bad . I remember as a kid really looking forward to it but then being completely let down - it fell so flat for me
shareI hope it's better than "The Great and Powerful Oz"!
That sucked.
The critics mostly agree with you, but I actually didn't mind that one. I found it entertaining at least.
I found "Oz" very disappointing, because it actually could have been good with a few changes - like a different Oz. I find movies that could have been good deeply frustrating, they actually annoy me more than boring ones!
I get it. Oz was the first time I ever saw James Franco, but I learned after it was released that an awful lot of people can't stand him. Because I had never seen him in anything, I didn't have a problem with him in this.
I mean, I can't stand Will Farrell. Everything he was in was ruined for me, so if he was scheduled to be in a movie I wanted to see, I simply wouldn't see it.
Franco really was bad in the role. I mean he's capable of good acting, or used to be but in this movie he was just smug and irritating - even Will Farrell might have been better! I mean they really should have made the movie 20 years ago, when Johnny Depp was still on form, a young and acute Depp would have made the most of the role and carried the film over its weaknesses.
But oh well, the movie's been made with my douchebag homeboy Franco, and Depp hasn't give that kind of performance in decades.
One more classic that doesn't need to be remade. Whatever they come up with will be yesterday's news soon enough, while the original will continue to be a timeless classic.
shareThere will be a flash of hype and excitement, brought about mainly because of the inevitable woke re-tuning, then it will go into the dumpster of forgotten remakes along with other junk like Spielberg's "West Side Story", and the original will still be remembered as the go-to version.
shareJust so you know. If no remakes were made, the 1939 version would not exist. It was the third filmed version.
shareIt will be very very awful. WB will be foolish to sink a lot of money into this. I predict too much CGI, race/gender swapping with the characters, and random action sequences. Just watch the original 1939 version. Or Return to Oz for a well-made film true to the source.
shareMy dad who died recently loved The Wizard of Oz. So you're saying it's no biggie that he won't get to see this?
shareYou need to post this article on "The Wiz" board, not here. https://moviechat.org/tt0078504/The-Wiz
share*uses a weary, slightly annoyed voice* Another one?
God, they've done really shitty remakes and "sequels" and even a "prequel" to this movie, and the truth is, they're never gonna recapture the awesomeness of the original. Sorry. And since this is the woke era, it's probably gonna be a shitty version that bombs at the box office and is forgotten within 6 months of release.
*replies in an amused-at-how-stupid-you-are-tone* Another one???
ANOTHER dummy who doesn't realize that the version they're talking about is NOT THE ORIGINAL?
LOL. . .you muppets are hilarious. "Why do another remake???" "Hollywood is creatively bankrupt!" "Woke woke woke!"
You're a fool. The movie you're thinking of IS A REMAKE. "Hollywood" has been doing remakes SINCE THE 30s.
Idiot.
So says the ugly-looking bot muppet who doesn't realize he's got both a Democrap's dirty hand and a dirty, yellow Chinese hand up his ass and pulling the strings on his non-existent brain.
shareSo says the person who hit you with facts, causing you to flail in impotent rage. No response to the truth bomb? LMAOOOOOO. . .you're a clown. Go sit down somewhere.
share"You're a fool. The movie you're thinking of IS A REMAKE. "Hollywood" has been doing remakes SINCE THE 30s.
Idiot."
It's comically ironic that you're calling someone a fool and idiot while confidently proclaiming that the 1939 movie is a remake (with your Caps Lock key on, no less). None of the Oz movies are remakes; they are all adaptations of, or based on, one or more of the Oz series of books by L. Frank Baum.
I suppose you also think that all of the A Christmas Carol movies except for the first one are remakes too, rather than adaptations of the same book by Charles Dickens.
A movie can only be a remake if its source material is an earlier movie. If its source material is a different form of media, such as a book, it's an adaptation, and an infinite number of adaptations can be made from the same book without any of them being remakes.
Agree. I would never dare attempt at making a sequel to this movie in 2023
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