Corpse Bride Co-Director Making Oz "Dark, Slick, Sexy"

[Nazulu]

Jesus fucking christ! Will this dark, gritty remake shit ever end? It was bad enough with just Tim Burton and retarded games.

Exactly the same way I feel. Absolutely over this rubbish, these fuck heads have no creative mind at all! The original Oz was great because of it's charm, original story and great movie scenes, the only reason they are doing this is to make a quick buck.

I'll predict the future. The movie will be absolute shit like Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland but it will make a crap load of money anyway because of the 3D gimmick. Then as another talentless hack gets away with it again, I'll be putting up with people telling me it's one of the greatest movies ever just like Alice in Wonderland. Repressing rage is not healthy for me.

 

[Juliana Quant]

Loved Return to Oz. The Judy Garland musical of Oz was too saccharine for my taste, but given the resume of lameness provided here I'm prepared to be disappointed.

 

[Swaki]

why not make an original IP (besides greed), if you are going to make something new up then why attach it to a beloved movie, have some artistic integrity, is those few extra tickets and merch in hot topic sales really worth it? did those few months working with Tim Burton really influence you enough to do that.

 

[Evilsanta]

Really? I wonder how they will fuck it up big time...

But then again it might be good...Or atleast decent.

 

[temporalcrux]

There will come a day when remakes of remakes of remakes of remakes are the "new thing", and everyone in the movie goes around, communicating in Bale-esque "Batman" grunts, throwing bullets at each other because they're just too damn cool for guns.

Hey, Hollywood, you wanna remake something that can't get any worse? Remake the Mario Brothers movie.

 

[matrix3509]

contemporary, freaky action-packed PG-13 audience pleaser.

a world that's dark, slick, sexy, and dangerous...PG-13 audience pleaser.

a hard-hitting, grown-up action film...PG-13 audience pleaser.

Besides, there already is a dark, freaky re-imagining of the wizard of Oz that has next to nothing to do with the original source material.

It may not have had anything to do with the source material, but it was WAY closer to the tone of the source than the original classic was.

 

[WittyInfidel]

Yet another re-imagining of Oz? And you say this one will be dark, gritty, edgy, blah, blah, blah like all the other re-imaginings?

Yeah, I'm so anticipating this...(sarcasm)

 

[maninahat]

contemporary, freaky action-packed PG-13 audience pleaser.

a world that's dark, slick, sexy, and dangerous...PG-13 audience pleaser.

a hard-hitting, grown-up action film...PG-13 audience pleaser.

Besides, there already is a dark, freaky re-imagining of the wizard of Oz that has next to nothing to do with the original source material.

Or the Syfy (then still SciFi) mini-series with Zooey Deschanel, Tin Man.

Ha ha, that looks terrible. The acting looked even worse. My cliché counter just clocked over. Why is it that remakes always somehow always miss the point of the source material?

 

[maninahat]

Oh no fair. I have an Oz screenplay in the works :S

Just wait another two years and you will get to do a reboot of the series!

 

[The Rockerfly]

Well fuck this shit is going to be... shit

No matter how hard they try, there is no way in hell I am going to see the Wizard of Oz to be "dark, sleek and sexy". It's suppose to be a magical and wonderful world with fantasy way before Tolkin and a wonderful tale about an Innocent girl who has lost her way and wants to just get back home. Not some slag who is a whinny teen slut who is going to cry about her daddy not loving her whilst fucking the other three then blowing the brains out of the witch

The only way they can make this worse is if Megan Fox plays Dorothy, Robert Pattinson as Tin Man, Will Ferrell as the Lion and Zac Effron as the Scarecrow

 

[Cowabungaa]

When I read 'contemporary, freaky action-packed PG-13 audience pleaser' I was thinking that the director himself must've read those words with a big helping of cynicism and disgust, as he cant't believe what kind of project he got himself into.

So it's basically going to be a Shrek version of The Wizard of Oz?

...I think I'm getting a migraine.

Wait...what? Since when is Shrek 'dark, slick, sexy'?

It's actually one of the only Syfy anythings I actually like a lot.

That actually looks pretty damn awesome.

 

[Byere]

Sooooo, once again, there's going to be a "Hollywood remake" of a timeless classic that, just by seeing the little bit of info we have here, I can till is just going to be an absolute piece of shit.

 

[Motakikurushi]

Who the hell allowed such a degenerate, worthless company to adapt THE MOST CHERISHED FILM EVER MADE? Didn't they already realise that the original Wizard of Oz was incredibly dark, more so than any generic gothic-inspired attempts you can make? You don't need to remake this! Please don't do this to my childhood!

 

[Numb1lp]

But they just can't remake the Wizard of Oz. It was such a great movie. They'd have to pull out all the stops here.

 

[Ponce Master-General]

PG-13? Well that sucks. The only way you can do "dark, slick and sexy" right is with an R rating. I can already tell THIS is going to suck.

 

[Double A]

Spoiler: What a great idea!

 

[Vohn_exel]

It's long been a goal of mine to create a hard-hitting, grown-up action film using stop-motion animation.

And what brings all that to mind more than the Wizard of Oz, right? It's JUST the right setting for a hard hitting action film, just like if they were to turn Gone with the Wind into a "black comedy." (No offense towards African Americans, but you see my point.)

No.
If you have to remake classic movies, you are obviously a talentless loser with no original ideas of your own. Fuck off, you degenerate git. Actually, just go kill yourself, because then you might actually have a chance of being remembered.

Actually my usual problem with remakes is that it either:

A: Doesn't need one,
or
B: Isn't what the original film was about.

Films like Highlander, for instance, don't really need a remake. The first film sets the entire universe up where you could easily forgo the ending to it and make a sequel ignoring the other sequels (easy enough considering those sequels ignore the other sequels), and have some new immortals running around with their own storyline. You don't have to screw up Connor Mcleod, and you don't have to worry about the baggage of the previous films.

The problem with this film is that it's going so FAR from what the original story and idea of the movie were about that it's retarded. Hard hitting, gritty action is not the first thing you think of when you think of the Wizard of Oz. While it doesn't necessarily need a remake, if they had kept with the original tone and idea for the movie, I'd be ok with one. But this is just stupid.

The idea of a remake, in my eyes, is that you honor an original and then go from there. You don't have to copy the original word for word, but capture the spirit and fun of the original and your remake will sell well, and also be a good movie. The chance a remake has, to me, is to take all the things the movie originally tried to do,and couldn't, and do them right. Not completely go off on another tangent. But money talks and Hollywood only speaks one language, so I guess there's no hope.

 

[manythings]

Jesus fucking christ! Will this dark, gritty remake shit ever end? It was bad enough with just Tim Burton and retarded games.

Seeing as the Nolan films were "dark, gritty remakes" I think you need to reconsider your words

I make the exception because those were actually good films. Tim Burton and all his ilk are just one trick ponies. I predict yet another movie with a girl coming into her own, at least one companion (I'm betting on scare-crow) capering about like a child-molester, a dark ironic turn of events that sheds light on the villain and yet another destiny manifested in an "I am woman, hear me roar" retard climax.

 

[Hemlet]

Well my sentiment is pretty much the same as everyone else (this is going to suck; what the hell is wrong with them? etc etc), but for some reason I can't help but think that this may turn out to be one of the funniest movies of the year as a result.

Just for a minute, I want you to imagine the lion from the original movie. Now I want you to imagine him with a shotgun in one hand and a fat cigar in the other trying to be a bad ass, complete with some Arnold-worthy one liners. Hard to do without smiling just a little bit isn't it? That's because there's absolutely NO WAY to take something like that even remotely seriously. It's like trying to imagine Toto with a rocket launcher and dark sunglasses, swearing like a sailor. You can do it, but the absurdity of it prevents you from finding anything even remotely "dangerous" or "dark" about it.

So, my overall prediction: just about guaranteed to be a terrible movie, but it might be hilarious as a result.

 

[TheRealCJ]

Sexy eh?

Well, yeah, I can SORTA see it. I mean, look at your main Characters: Loli, a Furry, Mecha dude, and... um... Straw... Guy...