We see his act performed for a half-empty house, and May is so flighty she forgets to volunteer. Oz is a two bit carnival performer primarily interested in getting laid – when his assistant/live score provider Frank (Zach Braff, CHICKEN LITTLE) comes into the trailer when he’s with his new audience plant May (Abigail Spencer, THE HAUNTING IN CONNECTICUT 2: GHOSTS OF GEORGIA) he whines, “The sock is on the door! We’re rehearsing!” In tribute to the MGM film, the prologue is shot in 4:3 black and white (which looks gorgeous), but it’s not about wholesome farm life. himself, James Franco) also seems to be the ex-boyfriend of Dorothy’s future mother? Whuh? A womanizing magician of low moral turpitude, Oscar “Oz” Diggs (Green Goblin Jr.
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The latter had worked on the script for Raimi’s aborted SPIDER-MAN 4 and would later write Ghost House’s POLTERGEIST remake.Įveryone had to start somewhere, and according to this movie the title character of THE WIZARD OF OZ started in early 20th century rural Kansas. The idea of a Wizard of Oz origin story came from Mitchell Kapner ( ROMEO MUST DIE), whose script was later rewritten by David Lindsay-Abaire (RABBIT HOLE, RISE OF THE GUARDIANS). So the production had to have a copyright expert on hand to help triangulate the amount of similarity they could get away with, down to the shade of green on the wicked witch and not allowing her to have a mole. In the intellectual property dominated entertainment of the 21st century Oz is an odd one – all 14 of Baum’s books are in the public domain, but the popular conception of them is from the MGM movie, which Raimi wanted to pay tribute to.
And, filming on soundstages in his home state of Michigan, they made a lush, candy-colored, 3D special effects fantasy based on the works of L. He brought along EVIL DEAD II cinematographer Peter Deming, DARKMAN editor Bob Murawski, SPIDER-MAN trilogy co-star James Franco and longtime makeup FX collaborators KNB, he got EVIL DEAD stars Bruce Campbell, Ellen Sandweiss, Betsy Baker and Theresa Tilly and EVIL DEAD II’s Dan Hicks all into the movie in bit parts, he even somehow convinced Danny Elfman to work with him again after their falling out on SPIDER-MAN 2. It’s beautiful to look at, it has some funny parts, and some visuals and strangeness that could only really happen in this odd circumstance of Sam Raimi directing a $200 million Disney family movie. So, without insisting anybody watch it, I will tell you that it has plenty that’s good about it, and bigger chunks of Sam Raimi than you might assume would make it through the Walt Disney Corporation filters. Remember those? No? You weren’t born yet? That’s what I’m saying – it’s been a while.Īlthough OZ was #9 at the box office that year, above THE HOBBIT: DESOLATION OF SMAUG, STAR TREK INTO DARKNESS and THOR: THE DARK WORLD, I’d say its cultural mark was even less than those, and I wouldn’t be surprised if most of you haven’t seen it.
It’s when Franck Khalfoun’s remake of MANIAC came out, and Spike Lee’s remake of OLDBOY, and Ryuhei Kitamura’s WWE Films joint NO ONE LIVES. We’re talking seven David Gordon Green movies ago (he was on PRINCE AVALANCHE, starring Paul Rudd, who was not yet Ant-Man).
It’s when they were on the first film of MCU Phase Two, IRON MAN THREE. But isn’t it crazy that it’s been 9 years since the last Sam Raimi movie? To remind you of how long ago this was, it’s when FURIOUS 6 and MAN OF STEEL came out. Luckily he has now actually filmed his next movie, so a comeback is on deck. And it definitely wasn’t what I wanted to see him go out on.
We have come to the film that was at the time “the new Sam Raimi” but for a few years became “the last Sam Raimi?” I enjoyed OZ THE GREAT AND POWERFUL well enough when it came out in 2013 ( here’s my review), even though a big commercial Disney movie that’s an unsolicited prequel to a famous story wasn’t high on the list of what I wanted to see from him. And now in our journey through the films of Sam Raimi we have arrived at a difficult spot.
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