Tin Man/Wizard of Oz

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I supposed this should go in the Cult section, but Sci Fi Channel are doing a remake/re-imagining of the Wizard of Oz.

From the Trailer it seems a lot darker and certainly less musical then the original.

Starring as with any of the Sci-Fi productions a whole host of people the main characters are played by Kathleen Robertson, Richard Dryfuss, Zoey Deschanel and Alan Cummings.
 
The Tin Man aka Nick Chopper, was in love with a Munchkin girl who was a servant girl to an evil witch. The witch didn't want to lose her servant to the WooRABman Nick Chopper so she enchanted his axe and he cut off his arm. The girl helped his fashion a tin arm. The witch saw this and kept at the enchantments until he was all made of tin...since his heart was gone he could no longer love the girl and she stayed with the witch.
 
SounRAB as if it will be good if Richard Dreyfuss is in it.

I seem to remember the book being darker than the film - and there was a lot more to the story after they had met the Wizard, about trying to get home. I think the book and all its sequels are available on the web - I'll just have a google...

Yes, it's at
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

The chapters are
1. The Cyclone
2. The Council with the Munchkins
3. How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow
4. The Road Through the Forest
5. The Rescue of the Tin Woodman
6. The Cowardly Lion
7. The Journey to the Great oz
8. The Deadly Poppy Field
9. The Queen of the Field Mice
10. The Guardian of the Gates
11. The Emerald City of Oz
12. The Search for the Wicked Witch
13. The Rescue
14. The Winged Monkeys
15. The Discovery of Oz the Terrible
16. The Magic Art of the Great Humbug
17. How the Balloon Was Launched
18. Away to the South
19. Attacked by the Fighting Trees
20. The Dainty China Country
21. The Lion Becomes the King of Beasts
22. The Country of the Quadlings
23. Glinda The Good Witch Grants Dorothy's Wish
24. Home Again

The second book is at
The Marvelous Land of Oz

Found another site - 14 of the books are here:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Ozma of Oz
Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz
The Road to Oz
The Emerald City of Oz
The Patchwork Girl of Oz
Tik-Tok of Oz
The Scarecrow of Oz
Rinkitink In Oz
The Lost Princess Of Oz
The Tin Woodman Of Oz
The Magic of Oz
Glinda Of Oz

There are more at The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Website, but it's a bit of a nightmare to find your way around it.

And at Dorothy and Ozma's Oz Chronology

The Magic of Oz

There are at least 40 books in the series, so plenty of material for films - why keep remaking the same one?
 
From the trailer, I am liking what I see (so far). Sadly knowing Sci Fi UK it will be two years before they show it here, the same with the Dune they did a few years back.

Definitely seems a lot more darker and twisted then the original movie, reminRAB me of the Snow White: Tale of Terror film starring Sigourney Weaver and Sam Neill.
 
I'm looking forward to this.

As much as I like the Judy Garland movie, it was not a faithful adaptation. Return to Oz actually stylistically felt truer to the books, but again was really only pieced together from elements from all the books, of which there are loaRAB.

Wasn't there a silent movie version made earlier than the Garland one?
 
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