As in The Wizard of Oz, the change in locale comes with a transition from black-and-white to eye-popping, hyper-realistic color, along with a shift to a 2.35:1 aspect ratio. Helped by his faithful assistant ( Zach Braff, Liberal Arts), he looks down on those who pay to see his show, but during moments of self-reflection, he acknowledges he could be a better man.ĭelivered from what seemed to be his certain death, Oscar lands in the Land of Oz. Oscar Diggs ( James Franco, 127 Hours) is a traveling magician in 1905 Kansas, a self-described conman who wows audiences with rigged tricks. In a throwback to the original Wizard, Raimi’s Oz opens in glorious black-and-white, in standard 1.33:1 aspect ratio. It’s a colorful, visually arresting film that has its share of inventive moments but could have used a bit more story development to justify its two-hour-ten-minute running time. There’s no Dorothy or Toto in this prequel to Wizard that reveals the titular character’s back story. Now comes the PG-rated Oz the Great and Powerful from director Sam Raimi ( Spider-Man). Frank Baum’s "Ozma of Oz" and "The Land of Oz." Many reviewers deemed the film to be comparatively unimaginative, but even more than that, too scary for the younger crowd (didn’t those critics remember the flying monkeys and wicked witch in director Victor Fleming’s classic film?). Since its release in 1939, The Wizard of Oz has become so beloved that no one dared to make a sequel until Walter Murch’s Return to Oz in 1985, based on Oz author L. That’s what I really want to do.Rating: PG for sequences of action and scary images, and brief mild languageĬast: James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams, Zach Braff, Bill Cobb, Tony Cox If my evil plans come together and I get the cast I am trying to get. “I’m hoping if all goes well to make it this summer. “I do have a new screenplay that I have written with my brother Adam,” he says. Getting the directorial itch after watching Raimi for months on the mammoth Oz set, Braff hopes to be back in the director’s chair sooner rather than later. I have such a big appetite for trying lots of things. “Last year I spent most of the year doing a play in the West End. “It’s best to - when you read a script - say, ‘Would I go see this movie? Would I be excited about this movie?’ And that always helps. “My mantra to myself is I want to do things that I would go see,” he says. While the world of big-budget films is new territory for Braff, he would still like to make more personal, smaller stories. It feels like the story’s told within this really beautiful painting.” “For me this was like a beautiful painting you got to live in.
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“This movie succeeds on trying to use all this new technology, which gets used in lots of sloppy, messy ways in movies,” he says.
Shot in 3D, Braff says the film, though it tackles familiar characters from the iconic original film, is meant to stand beside it, not compete. While Braff says he was initially wary of being stuck in a voice booth - he only briefly appears in his human form as Oz’s carnival sidekick Frank back in Kansas - he got more and more comfortable with the idea. “I find as a director you get the best stuff out of people when you say, ‘Hey there’s no wrong answers here let’s just f–k around and find it together as a team.’ So that comes from trust and friendship and getting along.” “We got all of that good stuff because we were so comfortable with one another. “There was a freedom to be as goofy and silly as you are with your best friend alone in your apartment on set in front of cameras,” he says of his cast mates. He was initially drawn to the project not because of its deep history in pop culture, but because of the film’s roster of power players: Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz, Michelle Williams and, of course, director Sam Raimi. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.
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