All You need to know about "Oz the Great and Powerful"?

[meganbmoore]

"When Mitchell starts talking about that man behind the curtain and how he got there, this storyline immediately strikes me as a great idea for a movie for a couple of reasons. One was because I love The Wizard of Oz. But this character is only in the last few minutes of that film and we have no idea who he is," Roth explained. "And the second reason was -- during the years that I spent running Walt Disney Studios -- I learned about how hard it was to find a fairy tale with a good strong male protagonist. You've got your Sleeping Beauties, your Cinderellas and your Alices. But a fairy tale with a male protagonist is very hard to come by. But with the origin story of the Wizard of Oz, here was a fairy tale story with a natural male protagonist. Which is why I knew that this was an idea for a movie that was genuinely worth pursuing."

 

It's kind of like when Whedon said that getting "mewling quim" out to the masses was one of the things he liked best about The Avengers, or however he put it.  (Like The Hobbit, The Avengers, and maybe Hansel and Gretel and the latest Batman, I'm sure i'll eventually watch it on DVD, but I feel no urgency or even anticipation for it.)

Comments

[meganbmoore]

Have you seen Tin Man? Because it's set in Oz's future, but that's the implied backstory, and the current ruler, previous ruler, and possible future ruler are all women.

[yifu]

No, I haven't. Since it's called Tin Man, is the story told from a dude's POV?

[meganbmoore]

Nope! I forget the exact reasoning for the title (something along the lines of a title that immediately marked it as Oz-related in the public psyche without making it sound like a straight up sequel/retelling, and the title also fit with the steampunk-ish worldbuilding ). It's set in the present and actually IS a quasi sequel/retelling, though more than 100 years seems to have passed in Oz itself. The main character is DG/Dorothy-stand-in, who appears to have magic she didn't know about, and Azkadelia, the "wicked witch" (who ends up considerably more than that) who currently rules Oz. The title character, Cain, shows up about 1/3 through the first episodes (3 episodes, 90~ minutes each) and largely serves as DG's bodyguard/crotchety-protective-uncle-figure (naturally they're fandom's favorite pairing, but there's no romance with pretty much anyone in canon), though he has his own angsty revenge subplot that pops up at times.