Wizard of Oz Remake Director Says New Film Will Include LGBTQ Representation

David Selznick: "You don't fuck with a classic."

So, this means that Glinda will be a trans and the major roles will be black.

As the story immediately following in the OP’s link says:

[quote] The Wizard of Oz Is Considered to Be One of the Greatest Films Ever Made

So, let’s leave it alone.

This will be interesting:

[quote] Now we’re going to turn a mirror on where we’re at right now and take disparate characters from the LGBTQ community, from different cultural communities and socioeconomic communities, and tell a story that reflects the world. I think this is the best time to do that.”

Glinda would be trans. Twitter would be outraged if the Wicked Witch were trans.

maybe all the munchkins can be played by Ellen Page.

The Lion was always kind of queeny.

I wouldn't panic. Cowardly Lion, Cowardly Bear... same thing, when you think about it.

You want queeny? That talking tube of KY was a powerbottom in seach of a can opener.

This is the second director and it's still in development. I could be wrong but switching horses in the early going doesn't exactly scream we know what we're doing with this great idea...

It's like WWS. The original was so good, who wants it brought up to date to make it more inclusive? Fuck off

The last thing we need is a remake of this classic film.

This will be as bad a train wreck as having Diana Ross as Dorthy.

Remaking it is sacrilege. It is a classic, and no one can replace Judy Garland. Now I know the world is over. For shame.

Let me guess, Billy Porter is fighting tooth and nail to don those ruby slippers.

The tin man uses a lot of lube. So…:..

Isn't that called "The Wiz"?

LEAVE THE WIZARD OF OZ ALONE!!

Pay no attention to the man behind the caftan!

I always assumed the Wicked Witch of the West was a lesbian

Sigh... the utter ego of people who think they can remake a classic, and think they can make it better.

Not " better," but " re-imagined to better reflect today's society." Please get the bullshit accurately.

Whatever it is, we know it won't involve a gay man.

Hopefully, the " Go woke, go broke" will apply here.

R21 For over 60 years the original was popular and beloved by several generations who weren't even born when it was originally released. For a number of years, it was an event when it was shown on TV. Why does this highly imaginative film need to be re-imagined. Why don't filmmakers try and come up with something original?

From a review of the recent Pinocchio re-imagining

-let’s just say that it seems like the people who made its biggest creative choices have more wood for brains than the character they brought to life.

I wouldn't be too worried, my little pretties. A few years ago when motion capture/ entirely CGI movies were all the rage (Tom Hanks's "Polar Express" and Jim Carrey's "A Christmas Carol") "Oz" was at the top of the list for a remake. I don't recall his name (because I don't care), but Beanie's brother was supposed to play The Cowardly Lion and Will Ferrell was The Tin Man. That happened, didn't it?

Every new generation of film makers think they're going to tackle "Oz", put their own unique spin on it and earn the same immortality as the MGM production. Steven Stealberg often bragged about wanting to do "Oz", but the closest he got was telling everyone "Hook" was filmed on the same soundstages.

That film is the perfect example of serendipity. Honestly, I believe it's divinely protected and no one will ever get to fuck it up.

My point is, these announced "Oz" remakes never happen.

Steven Spielberg is probably the only director that could do it... but it doesn't need doing. It is a perfect children's/family classic. Same with Sound of Music. It just doesn't need doing.

[quote]Whatever it is, we know it won't involve a gay man.

Oh, sure it will. There are plenty of queens right here who would kill to play Dorothy.

[quote]It's like WWS.

??

We all know it's going to be the Horse of a Different Color. Duh.

In my opinion, The Wizard of OZ is the greatest American film of all time. It's utterly perfect.

I wouldn't want that bastard Stealberg anywhere near Oz. He couldn't even get his facts straight while asserting "Hook" had some sort of blessing on it by allegedly using the same soundstages.

Oz was one of Jim Henson's biggest inspirations. He often spoke of wanting to do a non-musical film version more closely resembling the original book and illustrations. But even Henson new it was best left alone.

I couldn't agree more R32 !

I went to college with the great-great granddaughter of L. Frank Baum, who wrote the book. She was a fidgety, anxiety-ridden veterinary medicine major.

The opening credits of the 1939 film probably contain more inspiration than the entire remake will.

How nice. I hope somebody goes back to the Village People's greatest hits and gives them a good queering as well.

Dorothy (Laverne Cox) is trying to set up a shelter for abused LGBTQIA+ youth in Kansas. Unfortunately she has to deal with a nasty TERF called Mrs Gulch (Susan Sarandon) who wants to close down the shelter.

Then there's this awful Twitter storm and Dorothy gets sucked off into a hurricane and ends up in Oz where her LGBTQIA+ shelter ends up crushing another TERF called Jay Kay.

Dorothy quickly finds out that the people of Oz are called munchkins, trans men (all played by Elliot Page) who are in desperate need of top surgery from The Wizard Of Oz and who live in fear of The Evil Witch (Susan Sarandon again).

So Dorothy leads a Pride March to the Wizard's castle and on the way meets a Tin Person in need of a brain to have phalloplasty - Chaz Bono), a Lion in need of courage to have vaginoplasty (Hunter Schafer) and a Scarecrow in need of top surgery (Mae Martin).

By this point everyone has stopped watching so there's no need to continue.

Marry me r37

I remember being very young and when it came on TV you were just enthralled. It was an event for the Gen-X kiddies.

Dorothy will be surrounded by friends of Dorothy?

They never learn, do they?

I will hand in gay card.

They should just adapt the sequel, "The Land of Oz" instead. There's actual gender bending stuff there as part of the text.

r37, if you ever need a fake marriage, I'm your girl!

How many successful remakes of classic films can you name?

WHY?!?!?!

r45 1954's A Star us Born comes to mind

And technically, The Wizard of Oz was a remake

^^^ is

So basically this will be a Wizard of Oz with sexual content. How wonderful for modern day children!

MadTV already included a gay Tin Man in their version!

Will there be a whore of a different color?

I won’t even view a trailer for this shitfest

r52 you mean it's going to have scat too?!

The Cowardly Lion would identify as a Cheetah 🐆

All the dwarves will be lesbians & will be called the Rug Munchkins.

R45 I can think of two remakes of classic films which were at least as good as the original: The Fly (Goldblum) and Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Sutherland).

Certainly everyone wants to see another Sunset Boulevard.

If I remember correctly, the Tin Man started out as a mortal, but the Wicked Witch of the East caused him to chop off all his body parts by enchanting his axe. He was then rebuilt by a tinsmith who forgot to add a heart (among other things.)

Will the Wicked Witch of the East be Asian?

[quote] So, let’s leave it alone.

First of all, they won't. So saying that is pretty pointless.

Second, the book has been adapted many times into a movie (into "The Wiz," for example), and will be many, may times more, long after we're no longer alive.

[quote]Will the Wicked Witch of the East be Asian?

It will be Letitia James.

R37 I guess the song lyrics will have to be changed.

. The love the WoO, but it only tells about the first half of the first book. If they made this into a Netflixs show instead then it might actually be interesting.

[quote]New Film Will Include LGBTQ Representation

The original is the most LGBTQ-representative film ever made. Not a straight character in the whole movie.

Who needs nonbinary munchkins, genderqueer Dorothy, and a trans Tin Woman? As it happens I always got the impression the Tin Man was a bit gay anyway and, for woke points, the Wicked Witch was already a POC (albeit green). How about you take this remake and throw a bucket of water over it? If we’re lucky, it will melt away into nothing.

Is this really about "Doctor" Oz and his Family ?

The Wicked Witch will be the only white actor allowed.

Y'all relax. This has been attempted before and it tanked. They can remake the story but it will never achieve classic status like the 1939 version, at least not in our lifetime.

Next thing you know, they’ll do an all black version with an lesbian, middle-aged Dorothy and a gay pedophile playing the Scarecrow.

the Tin man is going to be a butch (dark) lesbian.

[quote]Diana Ross as Dorthy

Oh, dear.

They need to remake the HBO "Oz,' with hardcore sex this time.

Oil can what?

R70..Another job for Viola. Goody

Hollywood is out of material. It's been over one hundred years, and it's all been done. Hell, you can be made to dream at someone else's will while you sleep at night, so I can only imagine that personalized movie dreaming is currently coming down the pipe....

Dumb moralizing is not art. Not even popular art.

r56, it seems the horror/scifi genres are adept at good remakes.

Asiana arigato anime grande is in this so that alone means it will be trash.

[quote] Next thing you know, they’ll do an all black version

They already did that in the Seventies. And THAT has been remade since.

Of course some mediocre black bitch is getting handed this opportunity based on what… some shitty sitcom? Welcome to the new affirmative action insanity.

[quote]Dumb moralizing is not art. Not even popular art.

So you mean lines from the 1939 version like:

"Well, I - I think that it - it wasn't enough to just want to see Uncle Henry and Auntie Em - and it's that - if I ever go looking for my heart's desire again, I won't look any further than my own back yard. Because if it isn't there, I never really lost it to begin with!"

or

“And remember, my sentimental friend, that a heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others.”

are somehow NOT dumb moralizing???

MARY r81!!!!!!

The minute it appears on the IMDb and can be rated, there will be automatic 1's and 10's. Very little in between.

I'm comin" after you, and your little dog too

R81 the greatness of WoO does not lay in those selections. As a movie it is great as a whole. Which includes music, acting, cinematography.

I can assure you this remake will be stupid moralizing from the get go. It will be only that based on previous attempts in the last few years to remake classics.

BTW the Wiz was great. The music was great etc. It was also grounded in a more authentic and deeper historically grounded Black culture than is accessible to the Woke today.

If Caitlyn Jenner does not have a major role in the film, it will be so disappointing.

She can drive the trans van. Oh wait, Caitlyn better not drive anything.

Wicked witch J. K. Rowling?

🎶we’re off to see the Theyzard!🎶

Didn’t they soft-try this with A Wrinkle in Time?

[quote] "Mrs Gulch"

I loved everything except this, R37. Gulch is definitely a lesbian spinster. Even in this remake.

Will it be as wild, weird and wacky as John Booman's Zardoz (1974)?

Zardoz (1974)

Studios have money to flush down the toilet?

[quote]Dorothy quickly finds out that the people of Oz are called munchkins, trans men (all played by Elliot Page) who are in desperate need of top surgery

Transmen already have the lack of height and the munchkin voice down.

R91 I remember how, during Christmas vacation, we kids would excitedly gather around the Magnavox color console TV to watch the annual prime-time airing of ZARDOZ on NBC. I loved it so much that Mother made me a post-apocalyptic mankini, just like the one Sean Connery wore in the film. Such warm holiday memories. 😭

You know Glinda's gonna be Black and The Wicked Witch's gonna be White. You just know it.

Actually, R96, Glinda will be both multi-racial and gender -fluid, Glen or Glinda.

The film is based on basically one of the many Oz books, so who not pick one of the other books and go from there? Ozma of Oz and Jack Pumpkinhead are great characters!

R98 I agree. And Ozma would be perfect in today’s climate.

No

Not another remake. Stop this nonsense. Learn from WSS that sometimes remakes are not warranted, much less wise.

(^.^) unwarranted, unwise and UNWANTED

Return to Oz is a terf’s wet dream:

My guess will be all the main roles will be given to PoC and troon. White women and gay men will be given parts as extras if they're lucky. Why can't PoC create their own stuff instead of constantly appropriating from white people all the time?

Oh, well. I won't watch this just as I won't watch the live action remakes of The Little Mermaid or Snow White.

All the tranny munchkins played by Ellen Page will kill themselves on film so that stupid urban legend becomes reality.

Leslie Jordan for the leader of the Lullaby League

Kevin Hart for the leader of the Lollipop Guild

[Quote] Studios have money to flush down the toilet?

Did anyone ever watch Emerald City?

It was hard not to drool over the delicious Oliver Cohen-Jackson as The Scarecrow.

What amazes me is that when they make a woke re-make of a classic, it almost invariably bombs. No one wanted to see an all-female "Ghostbusters," an LGBTQ "Cinderella" (with Billy Porter as the Fairy Godmother), a "Heathers" TV show with a fat transwoman as one of the three Heathers, a South Asian "David Copperfield," etc. People WILL go to see period productions with anachronistic woke casting if it's used intelligently in an original story, as with "Bridgerton" or "Hollywood." But they usually will not if its a re-make of a beloved old film or novel.

And yet, they keep making them.

Ghostbusters remake was great - very enjoyable.

David Copperfield with Dev Patel was also great. His casting worked within the context of the movie. I also didn't have a problem with Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing which had Denzel Washington and Keanu Reeves as brothers.

Have no issue with Billy Porter as a Fairy Godmother.

I didn't watched Heathers but the idea of a fat trans person as a Heather sounds like they misunderstood the original premise, unless they made Veronica the villain instead of the Heathers.

The fairy GodMOTHER is a woman not a man, R109.

Bridgerton was for stupid people though. It would have been stupid with an all white cast, an all black cast, and all pumpkin cast.

[quote]Have no issue with Billy Porter as a Fairy Godmother.

No, you wouldn't, would you...

Will there be a trigger warning for the Scarecrow?

Don't think they will allow Munchkins in this film not after the dwarf "controversy" in the upcoming live action Snow White.

Munchkin erasure?

The Mar-a-Logo skit version of TWOZ was done in the ballroom last month. Performed before club members and selected guests, was quite entertaining according to an insider observer. The cast:

Dorothy - Kimberly Guilfoyle

Wicked With of the West- Marsha Blackburn

Good Witch of the North - Miss Lindsey

Scarecrow - Josh Hawley

Cowardly Lion - Kevin McCarthy

Tin Man - Louie Gohmert

The Wizard- Donald Trump

Aunt Em - Ginni Thomas

Uncle Henry - Rafael Cruz

Munchkin Mayor - Rudy Giuliani

Lullabye Center League Member - Kellyanne Conway

Wicked Witch of the East the House fell on - Sidney Powell

Toto - Dog that was rescued from Sarah Huckabee Sanders

Munchkins - the shorter Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, & 3 percenters

Flying Monkeys - from The Villages in Fla.

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