Disney to Remake Wizard of Oz in 3D and with Big Stars
Posted by Ashley McChesney on Thu, Apr 22, 2010 @ 11:53 AM
Sam Mendez, Robert Downey Jr., and 3D...oh my!
More info is emerging on "The Great Powerful," the Wizard of Oz prequel that's being developed at Disney.
Sam Mendes, who sits atop the short list of director candidates, is set to fly in from London in the next few weeks to meet with studio chief Rich Ross and other Disney executives.
Robert Downey Jr. is one of the actors being considered, but a number of dominoes would yet have to fall for that to happen, including, perhaps most trickily, some navigation of his already-packed schedule.
The project is aiming to shoot in 3-D, with the idea that plenty of Oz set-pieces could benefit from the z-axis treatment, just as they did in "Alice."
We could see the Wizard back on the big screen by as early as 2012.
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