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

[zarx]

Aielyn said:

zarx said:
I don't think this movie is meant to have any connection with the old movie, comming from a different studio and all, besides the movie was already quite different from the book. I belive that this movie is bassed on the non cannonical (written posthumously, different author) Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, which is already a prequel, so I guess that in a way this is an original adaption.

Well it isn't given a citation, but wikipedia suggests otherwise. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oz:_The_Great_and_Powerful

"The film, adapted from L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, is intended as a prequel to the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz."

I am aware that it may not be accurate, but I don't have the patience to go looking for confirmation or refutation of the claim, given that it's not something I care enough about (I'd rather forget that this film exists).

hmm anything without a citation on Wikipedia is basically worthless, whoever wrote the article probably just assumed it is.