Thursday, July 12, 2012

Watch/Discuss: Sam Raimi's Wizard of Oz prequel, Oz: The Great and Powerful, gets a badly acted teaser.

Not much to say here, as the first of I presume several Comic Con trailers comes online (The Lone Ranger screened for the convention, but it's not online yet). It looks like Disney and Sam Raimi are clearly trying to emulate Alice in Wonderland via The Wizard of Oz. Oddly enough, the acting is actually pretty bad in what little of it we see, as James Franco (Oz) ', Mila Kunis, and Michelle Williams (Glinda the 'Good Witch') come off as stilted and uncomfortable with the fairy-tale trappings. I'm sure Rachel Weisz will kick ass as Evanora (IE - the Wicked Witch) and the $200 million visuals will be a feast for the eyes, but the oddly 'off' lead performances should put up an immediate 'danger' signal. Anyway, Oz: The Great and Powerful opens on March 8th, 2013. As always, we'll see.

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2 comments:

Erlend Lunde Holbek said...

You see practically no acting in that trailer. You see some faces and hear some soundbites, but other than that it's pretty much nice imagery. I think the tone here seems to work better than in Alice in Wonderland, but it's hard to tell.

July 12, 2012 at 7:53 PM
Rick said...

Seems kind of lame really; and just makes me wish it was "Wicked" (the book, not the musical) instead

July 12, 2012 at 8:01 PM

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