This strange gem of a film looks to have escaped my notice, and yet another interpretation on the Wizard of Oz is headed to the big screen.
The film follows a grown-up Dorothy Gale, now a successful children’s book author, as she moves from Kansas to present day New York City. Dorothy discovers that her popular novels are based on suppressed childhood memories as the new Wicked Witch of the West arrives in modern day New York to exact her revenge.
The film stars Paulie Rojas as Dorothy Gale, Billy Boyd as Nick Chopper, Eliza Swenson as Billie Westbrook, and Christopher Lloyd as the Wizard of Oz. It also features performances from Mia Sara, Sasha Jackson, Lance Henriksen, Jason Mewes, Jeffrey Combs, Noel Thurman, Sean Astin and Ethan Embry.
Finding out at one point that this might have been an Asylum film (who apparently prides themselves on making bad, cheap, and quickly produced films) just gave me shivers. I am really curious about this film and I would have lost any interest if I knew Asylum would be cutting its corners.
We also have the poster, which is less inspiring than the above clip, but there nonetheless.
I am really looking forward to seeing what they do with this.
