As if the flying monkeys weren’t already scary enough!
THR is reporting tonight that New Line Cinema has snagged a pitch from writer Mike Van Waes for an original horror film set within the world of The Wizard of Oz. We don’t yet know exactly what that means, but the site notes that the now-in-development film will have ties to the universe created in the 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum.
That novel of course became the classic 1939 film starring Judy Garland. The story was most recently adapted by Sam Raimi, who directed the 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful.
In The Wizard of Oz…
Dorothy Gale is swept away from a farm in Kansas to a magical land of Oz in a tornado and embarks on a quest with her new friends to see the Wizard who can help her return home in Kansas and help her friends as well.
More details as we receive them.