For some bizarre reason, Warner Brothers is providing financing to turn Todd McFarlane’s hideous reimagining of the Wizard of Oz into a movie. Except they seem to be going a completely different direction than McFarlane’s figures, so WTF is the point of licensing with McFarlane in the first place?
According to a press release that was posted at Spawn.Com, Josh Olson will write the script, and Olson apparently had much the same reaction I had to the figures,
I saw those toys, and Dorothy as some bondage queen isn’t something I want to do. The appealing thing about the Baum books to me is how wildly imaginative they are. There are crazy characters from amazing places. I want this to be Harry Potter dark, not Seven dark.
Then why get McFarlane involved at all, since McFarlane is all about glorifying ugliness both literal and metaphorical.