It is official. I have now heard everything.
New Line is building on its recent success with horror films by purchasing a script from screenwriter Mike Van Waes for… “an original horror film set in the world of The Wizard of Oz.” No, you didn’t mis-read that. A horror film set in Oz.
Now, anyone who has ever seen Return to Oz will know that there’s already been some fairly freaky crap set in L. Frank Baum’s far-away land. But an actual horror movie? Seriously? Wowsers. Did someone seriously just watch Emerald City and think, ‘nah, needs to be more brutal’?
New Line have been making a killing (no pun intended) over recent years through relatively low-budget horror movies, with The Conjuring series, Lights Out and the upcoming Stephen King adaptation It being stand-out examples. But this is just a strange one. More info as and when we know it, but… wow.
I blame Riverdale for this…
Source: Hollywood Reporter
Dave Bowling
Dave was born at an early age to parents of both sexes. He has been a self-confessed geek for as long as he can remember, having been raised through the 80s on a steady diet of Doctor Who, Star Trek, Red Dwarf and (sigh) Knight Rider. Throw the usual assortment of Saturday morning cartoons into the mix and we have something quite exceptional: someone with an encyclopaedic knowledge of utter tosh; a love of giant robots and spaceships fighting; and the strange desire to leap tall buildings in a single bound while wearing his underpants over his trousers. The death ray is currently in the works and one day you shall all bow to him, his giant space station and fleet of funky orange space shuttles...
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