And whether it’s magic, Munchkins, flying monkeys or her arch-nemesis Wilhelmina, the wicked witch-in-training and niece of the Wicked Witch of the West, Dorothy is ready to track down and put a stop to any problem that comes Oz’s way with help from her dog Toto and their friends Scarecrow, Tin Man, and Cowardly Lion.” Things get complicated in the show’s second season when the Wizard, victim of yet another tornado, finds himself back in Oz and decides to gain actual powers so that he can become a real wizard. Describes Wikipedia, “With her feet firmly grounded in her ruby slippers, Dorothy tackles her royal duties with enthusiasm, bravery and farm girl feistiness.
At least not yet.įollowing events of the 1939 film, Queen Ozma has made Dorothy the Princess of Emerald City. A sequel was expected, but while the film turned a profit, it was just enough for Disney to feel it had dodged a fiscal winged monkey, leaving the studio with no intent to return to Oz. Mila Kunis is Theodora, who will ultimately become the Wicked Witch of the West Rachel Weisz is Evanora, the Wicked Witch of the East Michelle Williams is Glinda, the Good Witch of the North (the actress also plays an old girlfriend of Oscar’s who will eventually give birth to Dorothy). But the truth soon becomes apparent, and he finds himself in the middle of a magical power struggle.
There he goes from fraud to hero as he agrees, for a price, to help the people of Emerald City, not believing for a second that there are really witches. Directed by Sam Raimi, it’s unofficially a prequel to the 1939 film focused on James Franco’s Oscar “Oz” Diggs, who, in 1905, is working as a magician in a traveling circus and who, like pretty much everyone else in these films, finds himself in Oz via tornado. Without doubt the most ambitious of the Oz films since the original.
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