The Brothers Grimm tales are very dark fairy tales, which most were stolen by Disney and kidified, for children.
This seems like they are going back to the Grimm storytelling? (Grimm are the names of the brothers who wrote them.)
Frank L. Baum is who wrote the books about Oz. Where the story isn't exactly the way the Wizard of Oz portrayed it, it was a good adaptation. I hope the show sticks more to the source.
shareThe Brothers Grimm wrote many fairy tales which have been adapted... not stolen. They're public domain works, meaning they can be interpreted and adapted.
This show isn't going the Grimm's route because they didn't write the story of Oz. Like someone else already posted, L Frank Baum wrote the Oz books.
I believe there is another world waiting for us, Sixsmith.share
Seriously, you can sum up everything the OP said with this,
"I have no idea what I'm talking about, but I am going to pretend that I do and say something completely inaccurate on every level"
smh
Not at all, this is simply Wizard of Oz interpreted through a Game of Thrones lens.
Personally I love dark re-tellings of children's stories. Most kids stuff is very dark in a very subtle way anyway, it's just interesting to make it more obvious. I have never been fond of Oz even though I've adored fantasy my entire life but I did like that weird, nightmarish sequel movie they did so I know I'm going to love this.
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"No! He is imprinted on you like a gay duckling. If you don't wean him off you slowly, he'll die."
They're not retelling this. They're dissecting it and stitching it together with a bunch of 'dark' cliches and the result is a shambling Frankenstein's monster.
shareThe Brothers Grimm didn't write those stories. They just copied down folktales that had - up to that point - been preserved solely through oral tradition.
During their research for Beauty and the Beast, Disney drew on many different sources for the story which had many different versions. The original story was probably never written down. By the time the first written versions appear, there were many local variations. This is true of most fairytales, making it difficult to pin down much about the original versions.
And even the Brothers Grimm sanitized some of the stories they included in their collection.
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Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.
Preface to his first "Land of Oz" book..
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Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations.
Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as "historical" in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer "wonder tales" in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.
Having this thought in mind, the story of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.
L. Frank Baum
Chicago, April, 1900.