Source: FilmoFilia
Here’s an interesting update on Sam Raimi‘s upcoming Oz, The Great and Powerful. Mila Kunis has signed on to play Theodora, the Wicked Witch of the West and previously rumored James Franco has signed on to play the Wizard, when he learned that Kunis is in the game.
All fine and interesting until I noticed that they also made some changes to the story.
But then, the script was recently rewritten by David Lindsay-Abaire, and now, according to Vulture it “tells the story of the origins of the Wizard, and of Oz’s infamous witches like Glinda, who becomes the Good Witch of the North, and Evanorah, who becomes the Wicked Witch of the East (though best remembered as the new, ruby-slippered sub-basement of Dorothy’s farmhouse).”
It’s not a deal breaker, but it does sorta change my outlook on the film. What was once a movie that seemingly focused solely on the story of the Great Wizard of Oz, starring Robert Downy Jr., has turned into a movie about a few of the figureheads in the fantasy world starring Franco and Kunis. I wasn’t sure what we would get out of a movie that wasn’t being anchored by Downey Jr. as the lead and now I’m having a tough time wrapping my head around this movie.
I don’t think they’ll give us a bad performance, I just have a hard time divorcing myself from what was originally pitched. What do you guys think of Kunis in the movie as a Wicked Witch and Franco as the Wizard?
