----- Original Message ----- From: "Chad Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 08, 2002 12:10 PM Subject: RE: Remaking the Wizard Of Oz
> > > > > The Cowardly Lion - Arnold Schwartzenegger (takes some > > imagination here) > > > > The Doorman - Danny Aiello > > > > Not to be too critical, but was not the doorman, the traveling salesman,and > the Wizard's Chamber guard, the Wizard himself, all the same character? > Should not this apply to the new movie as well? Or are you referring to some > other doorman other than the one at the Emerald City gate? I'm thinking that some of the smaller parts (not the munchkins) should be walk on roles by some bigger stars. Why repeat the exact same formula again? > > Also, what about the munchins? would they be CGI'ed up? Sure! We could have Insync as the Lollypop Kids. Kind of a LOTR treatment for making people shorter. <G> > > You also have the issue related to the wicked neighbor delivering a > sheriff's warrant to the Aunt and Uncle of Dorothy directly. In today's > world, this would be delivered by an officer, usually one dedicated to > Animal Control. > > I suppose that the movie will have to be updated culturally, or it needs to > be set in the 1930's. AFAIK, there have been two remakes. Michael Jackson's > "The Wiz" version, and some other version I cannot recall at the moment. > Eraserhead was a WOO remake! <G> xponent On Acid Maybe Maru rob
