Warner Bros is in early talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct a live-action remake of the The Wizard of Oz and plans to use the original script from the 1939 classic. Warner Bros owns the screenplay because Ted Turner bought it along with the MGM library before Warner Bros bought Turner’s empire. This latest Oz twist comes as Disney is trying very hard to mount The Great And Powerful Oz. Sam Raimi is developing that film while he simultaneously develops World of Warcraft for Warner Bros and Legendary. Disney and Raimi want Robert Downey Jr. as their star. The original Wizard of Oz script had a total of 19 writers (seems not much has changed in Hollywood) with many of them uncredited, including Bert Lahr who played the film’s Cowardly Lion. This wouldn’t be the first hugely high-profile remake for Zemeckis; he's in the middle of a Yellow Submarine animated redux for Disney, scheduled for a 2012 release. Also, after working for years in performance-capture animation, Zemeckis has been moving toward a return to a live-action films, attaching himself to Timeless also at Warner Bros. Whenever you remake a revered Hollywood film, there’s bound to be controversy, but going right to the original material is certainly an interesting approach.

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Oh, for pity's sake...

I like Raimi and Zemekis (a lot, actually), but some things should be sacred.

MAKE...SOMETHING...ORIGINAL...

Surely they've got to be kidding.Obviously,Hollywood has run out of ideas,and have to revert to remake classics.Are they THAT desperate?Is nothing sacred?

LEAVE THE CLASSICS ALONE!!!!!!!!!

I'd be fully supportive of a new adaptation of the book(s), but this is ridiculous.

I guess Gone With the Wind is next. :crazy:

I guess Gone With the Wind is next. :crazy:

Just when you thought Georgia was safe... Rob Zombie's Gone With The Wind... in 3-D!

I guess Gone With the Wind is next. :crazy:

I've been saying that for years and this as well when I hear about a remake...

FREE HAT!!!

Warner Bros., what the hell are you doing???:mad:

Who's going to be be playing Dorothy??? Miley Cyrus???

LEAVE THE CLASSICS ALONE!!!!!!!!!
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The 1939 film WAS a remake of the 1925 version and "The Wiz" was a blaxpoitation version of it (which I still like with Diana Ross, Michael Jackson, and Richard Pryor)....

But "The Wiz" seemed more creative. If "The Wizard of OZ" would ever be remade...remake "The Wiz", but I'm afraid that The WB will make this film into a Franchise so they can get more money!

Wow. I love how Dorothy and the gang in the picture posted have the same reaction on their faces as most of the world at this news. lol.
I think Ann Hathaway or Selena Gomez would make an excellent Dorothy, should the remake happen. Both have stated they love Judy. Ann is too old, tho, IMO.

The book I could see a new adaptation done, but the 1939 script?? C'mon hollywood stop being so LAAAAAAAAAAAZZZZZZZZY!!!

I heard that they've narrowed the Dorothy character down to Lindsay Lohan, Justin Bieber, Johnny Depp or Daniel Radcliffe

why not do 'Wicked' instead? and Hollywood does want to bank on The Wizard of Oz. I read on here, a movie is being considered (or is actually being made) about the wizard himself before Dorothy arrived.