Sam Raimi's Oz, the Great & Powerful just go its first trailers.

It'll be coming next March!

I'm a huuge fan of the director & the trailer was pretty good...hope the movie delivers too!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9ZTP2k0DRc

O.o

Looks A LOT like Alice in Wonderland....

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

The difference is that neither the 1910 nor 1925 versions would have been classics. The original 1910 one was a 13 minute silent movie - it makes sense to make a new one after that.

And I don't mind remakes of great stories, when they're done tastefully. There have been many Alice in Wonderlands over time. Only the Tim Burton one bothers me, and the reason why is the same reason why I'd have no problem with some indie developer doing effectively a "reimagined Mario Bros", but if Sega were to do it, I'd be pissed off. It's a matter of scale and purpose, and of screwing with classics.

But then, this one bothers me even more. It's not even meant to be a reimagining - it's meant to be a prequel. And by doing a prequel, they're screwing with the canon of the movie.

But what bothers me most is that there's so many other classic stories out there that go ignored. If they insist on taking from old stories, why can't they at least do something that hasn't been done before?

The trailer was a borefest. I'll give it a chance though.

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.