Oz, The Great & Powerful Trailer Released! (From Sam Raimi)

[mike_intellivision]

Aielyn said:
Ugh... why must hollywood screw with classics?

Is it just that they have no skill in coming up with new ideas, and just have to insert modern technology and modern film cliches into old stories?

Well, Hollywood has always done that. 

The Wizard of Oz movie (1939) that is so revered was actually the third movie by that title produced (1910, 1925), including one (1925) that sounds as revisionist as the Tim Burton take on Alice in Wonderland.

Basically, you see this because the classics are great source material. In other words, the same reason some characters and series and IPs appear over-and-over-and-over again in the video game world.

To be honest, some of the more modern tellings look fun. 

And it shocked me (though with Alice and Wonderland, it should not) when I saw "Disney' at the end of the trailer.

That studiio has come a long way since "Super Dad." (And it is a lot closer to what it was in its hey-day -- look at the story of the Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia).

 

Mike from Morgantown