Putting the ache back into remake (Scraping the barrels of fairy dustbins)
Hollywood is at it… again:
There will be no Munchkins skipping among the daisies, and the Yellow Brick Road will be updated with the latest computer technology in the Warner Brothers remake of the Wizard of Oz.
To the inevitable horror of the movie’s thousands of ardent fans, the producers have vowed to take the story and inject it with a “2007 wow factor”.
The new version is the brainchild of Todd McFarlane, a media entrepreneur who cut his teeth on the Spider-Man comics and rose to fame with his own anti-hero creation, Spawn.
He told Variety magazine that he wants to give the film a dark edginess, with Dorothy “much closer to the Ripley from Alien than a helpless singing girl”.
He has already produced a line of toys featuring a sexed-up Dorothy, and her dog Toto morphed into a vicious warthog.
Lovely.
Still, I’m sure it will be an unmitigating success – just like that other remake, marketed as a sequel.
You know, the one about a young, blameless hero, following in the footsteps of his much loved daddy, going on the same quest as the old man: to serve the Light – and to defeat the Forces of Darkness.
Now, what was that one called again? It’s on the tip of my tongue…
What?
Oh yes, of course, how silly of me:
Iraq ll: The adventure Continues!
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