Emerald City - A grim, gritty version of The Wizard of OZ, from the guy who brought you The Cell - General

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKeRnyFIHWsp[/media] This is not a drill, this is real. It's premiering on the 6th. I'm without words.

dear god :scream: it's probably gonna be shite isn't it what was the second movie like, the really terrifying one that begins with Dorothy getting electro-shock treatment? Was it actually any good?

[QUOTE=BlackMageMari;51619112]what was the second movie like, the really terrifying one that begins with Dorothy getting electro-shock treatment? Was it actually any good?[/QUOTE] You mean Return to Oz? Yeah I thought it was decent. Been a long time since I watched it though.

This looks okay, but it's gonna be crap probably

the wizard looks a lot like comstock tbh

But will the slippers be silver this time?

:what:

[QUOTE=Stiffy360;51619162]But will the slippers be silver this time?[/QUOTE] From the trailer it looks like she gets magic gloves. I think they're replacing the slippers. I wish trailers like this one would stop showing all the events. It's very easy to piece together what happens in the show/movie/etc.

Once Upon A Time is my soap story........ also the flash, but that's it.

"If it's an old family or child movie, just give it a grimdark or gritty remake when the people who watched it are adults, let's make their old kids favorites their new adult favorites!" I called a gritty and dark live action beauty and the beast remake years ago, and look where we are.

Didn't the Syfy channel do this same thing with Tin Man like 6 years ago?

oh no i thought this was a bad dream. goddamn it, you can't keep destroying my childhood.

insta-grit: don't call a spade a spade (superman - smallville, wizard of oz - emerald city) looks interesting as its own show, but it kind of has that over-produced vibe that I got from shows such as the 100 and eureka

What grinds my gears seeing this (and a lot of other 'Gritty' Oz attempts, really) is that there actually are legit ways to make Oz [i]really[/i] disturbing, and you wouldn't have to change much. Just look at it a [i]liiiitle[/i] differently. For example The Tin Woodsman is so because his axe was stealthily enchanted with a spell that would cause a certian percentage of it's swings to veer off course and sever one of his own limbs instead. He just had to keep replacing severed parts of himself with metal prosthetics until the day only his head was left, the axe forced him to decapitate himself, and he attached a tin head to complete the 'Transformation'. This was possible because death as a concept is not set in stone in Oz; depending on the location and timeframe of the story killing someone could range from incredibly difficult to actually impossible. But that didn't mean that was a [i]boon[/i], since whatever wanted you dealt with could instead tear you to pieces or grind you to dust; leaving you still fully aware and alive, but stuck like that and in unimaginable pain forever. In fact, someone eventually gathered up the original flesh body parts of the Tin Man and put them back together, and [i]he[/i] was just fine after that. Meaning that there was an 'Original' Tin Man who never was tin and the Tin Man we all know out and about at the same time. Which one at that point was the real woodsman? Both? Neither? You want to sit down and work through this moment of existential crisis in the middle of Munchkinland? ...But no. Put an animal pelt on a barbarian and call him The Cowardly Lion. [i]Clearly[/i] you know what you're doing here.

Goodness gracious that's laughably bad.

"A clash of science and magic" ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhggggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Did that cop not see the twister coming? Or hear it? Seriously how does a giant wind funnel sneak up on someone? What the hell people...

I saw the first episode (albeit without sound) when I was on my flight back from vacation. It looks about as corny and melodramatic as you would think. I had to roll my eyes when the 'scarecrow' (or 'crucified man', rather) was handsome and no doubt will have a romantic subplot with Dorothy. One thing I caught was where, I guess the evil witch accidently shoots herself in the face when examining Dorothy's gun. As someone else stated, there are ways to make a gritty Oz story, but this looks really corny.

[QUOTE=Twitty;51621934]Did that cop not see the twister coming? Or hear it? Seriously how does a giant wind funnel sneak up on someone? What the hell people...[/QUOTE] It's a magic twister, man.

[QUOTE=thefreeman;51619676]Didn't the Syfy channel do this same thing with Tin Man like 6 years ago?[/QUOTE] Tin Man was at least mildly interesting and had intriguing concepts though [editline]4th January 2017[/editline] Intriguing as in it didn't look like it belongs on the CW

So many people have tried to put their own spin on Oz in the last 10 years, just stop it please.

It must be really uncomfortable to have your breasts smashed like the costume for the Witch of the West.

[QUOTE=Pennywise;51621193]What grinds my gears seeing this (and a lot of other 'Gritty' Oz attempts, really) is that there actually are legit ways to make Oz [i]really[/i] disturbing, and you wouldn't have to change much. Just look at it a [i]liiiitle[/i] differently. For example The Tin Woodsman is so because his axe was stealthily enchanted with a spell that would cause a certian percentage of it's swings to veer off course and sever one of his own limbs instead. He just had to keep replacing severed parts of himself with metal prosthetics until the day only his head was left, the axe forced him to decapitate himself, and he attached a tin head to complete the 'Transformation'. This was possible because death as a concept is not set in stone in Oz; depending on the location and timeframe of the story killing someone could range from incredibly difficult to actually impossible. But that didn't mean that was a [i]boon[/i], since whatever wanted you dealt with could instead tear you to pieces or grind you to dust; leaving you still fully aware and alive, but stuck like that and in unimaginable pain forever. In fact, someone eventually gathered up the original flesh body parts of the Tin Man and put them back together, and [i]he[/i] was just fine after that. Meaning that there was an 'Original' Tin Man who never was tin and the Tin Man we all know out and about at the same time. Which one at that point was the real woodsman? Both? Neither? You want to sit down and work through this moment of existential crisis in the middle of Munchkinland? ...But no. Put an animal pelt on a barbarian and call him The Cowardly Lion. [i]Clearly[/i] you know what you're doing here.[/QUOTE] I always thought that the hanging munchkin theory was unsettling, albeit it being just a theory. An Oz world where it's the same upbeat positive world, but some things are just off like people happily singing and dancing but there's a noosed dwarf in the background. And I loved the original winged monkey design, it always creeped me out. Replacing flying monkeys with a black bald lady is both hilarious and uninspired.