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Raimi to direct Wizard of Oz prequel – starring Downey Jr?

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Sam Raimi has signed on to direct a 3D prequel to The Wizard of Oz for Disney entitled Oz: The Great and Powerful. The studio are hoping to ensnare Robert Downey Jr. for the titular role.

Rumours of Raimi directing the feature emerged late last week and were confirmed today by Nikke Finke at Deadline. Oz will be Raimi’s follow-up to 2009’s horror-satire Drag Me To Hell, and his first film since abandoning (or being booted off) the doomed Spider-Man 4.

The script was written by Mitchell Kapner. Originally called Brick, the film focuses on The Wizard of Oz before he came to be “The Wizard of Oz”, starting as a circus wrangler who is mysteriously transported to the land of Oz and mistaken for a know-it-all.

Downey Jr. seems like a perfect fit for the role. Perhaps the only thing standing in the way of him signing immediately is his busy schedule (he is already locked in to The Avengers, Sherlock Holmes 2 and Alfonso Cuaron‘s Gravity).

The project is being produced by Joe Roth, who was also behind Disney’s billion-dollar grossing Alice in Wonderland (a similar property that they entrusted to an offbeat director). No doubt they are hoping Oz achieves the same financial success.

Discuss: Are the combined talents of Downey and Raimi enough to make a Wizard of Oz prequel sound like a reasonable idea?


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