Saturday, April 3, 2021

Me Singing "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" Now

Me Singing "Ding! Dong! The Witch Is Dead" Now

Me Singing "If I Only Had a Heart" Now

If you were in ...

... this remake of The Wizard of Oz, which character would you play?

Me...

The Wicked Witch of the West

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Is this actually an ongoing debate, now?

Which would you say is more alluring, playing a little girl in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory or Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz?

Meticulous Reviewer

In these next 2 clips, the reviewer says this is one of the most famous movies. It's probably due to that it could be remade in future generations and already got a lot of attention.





In the next clip, he states he has "mixed feelings."



He, like other reviewers and posters, says the other books are a good thing to fall back on.

Another common inquiry in things like this is about scenes from the book not all being there.

In the next clip, he announces that the new movie may not be more "faithful to the book" when it's not allowed to just copy the original under this agreement. People often want remakes to be better than the original by following the book more.


In the next clip, he says he wants it to be something he can be excited about, maybe not just another flop that causes any problems.



He says it needs to be great to make the money! It may make money off of the title alone.

He says, even if it's bad, you still have all those books and even other earlier musicals.

Suggested Cast

This was a pretty nice one, think he is Scottish.  He said the lady who played the witch in Wicked should play it in the remake.  She was also the star of Frozen.

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my comment

I'm reading the book. I got them all on NOOK. I wish they would get together a good cast and remake the musical as a movie in the next few years. I know it could be less popular, but it's not that hard. Just the spirit of the 1930s won't live with whatever remake they do, possibly.

Cool Review

He also mentioned the related, famous/popular musical Wicked.  The director sounds good, like all people are different, a bit different from yet similar in some spirit to / vibe with Tim Burton.

This guy also would like to see the other books (14 or 15 of them total) worked into movies.  I'm not sure, but I saw a character from other books in a movie of this, too.