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A sequel???

posted 12 years ago by ice_sarah
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Dear Lord I hope this isn't true...

According to Wikipedia, director Leigh Scott is looking at making a sequel incorporating characters not only from Oz but also from Peter Pan & Alice in Wonderland folklore.

I didn't think it was possible to make a film worse than The Witches of Oz, but looks like they're going to have a crack at it!

Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witches_of_Oz

[–] lojo414 12 years ago

OMG please no, make it stop.

"No Good Deed Goes Unpunished"

[–] austincovello-1 12 years ago

The sad truth is that anything that has an "Oz" title on it is a must-see for Oz fans. Witches had such a low budget that it would have been hard for it NOT to make it's money back, even in its limited theatrical release. That's how it is with franchises. The flaw in the equation is "must-see" doesn't always equal "must-love."

[–] misbegotten 8 years ago

According to Wikipedia, director Leigh Scott is looking at making a sequel incorporating characters not only from Oz but also from Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland folklore.

Although The Witches of Oz isn't produced by The Asylum, the mini-series' director Leigh Scott and it's producer/co-writer/actress/soundtrack composer Eliza Swenson both started their careers at The Asylum, making and/or starring in several films for that company (another Asylum veteran, Sarah Lieving, also cameos in The Witches of Oz as The Wicked Witch of the East).
In addition, I've seen an on-camera interview (I think it was included in the extras on the mini-series' Blu-ray) in which Leigh Scott says he originally pitched The Witches of Oz to The Asylum, but they said it was too elaborate and expensive a project for them to take on.

So although the mini-series was produced by another company, it still contains a hefty amount of Asylum DNA. Therefore, I like to think that The Witches of Oz - in which various warring inhabitants of a magical and supposedly fictitious realm breakthrough into our world to continue their conflict - in set in the same continuity or universe as The Asylum's Avengers Grimm (fairy tale princesses re-imagined as superpowered heroines and transported from their home dimension to present-day Los Angeles) and it's sequel Sinister Squad (which throws characters from Lewis Carroll's Wonderland novels into the mix).

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[–] misbegotten 8 years ago

According to Wikipedia, director Leigh Scott is looking at making a sequel incorporating characters not only from Oz but also from Peter Pan and Alice In Wonderland folklore.

Leigh Scott subsequently directed a movie called The Lost Girls, and while there's not much information about it available on-line, it might be the Oz/Neverland/Wonderland crossover that he was planning - or it was perhaps initially intended as such, but then was substantially reworked. According to it's IMDB entry, The Lost Girls was completed in 2014, but it seems to be stuck in distribution limbo.

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