Is there only one oz?

Question

has anyone ever remade the Wizard of Oz? (other than cartoons)

Answer 1

The Wizard of Oz was recorded live on Christmas day, 1950, and starred Judy Garland in this radio version of the classic film. Her daughter Liza Minnelli was in the audience

Noel Langley penned a direct sequel based on The Marvelous Land of Oz that utilized similar conflicts created for this film, which centers upon a girl named Tippie living in an orphanage who dreams that she goes to Oz. The script is undated, but was probably created in the 1950s.

The 1974 musical and 1978 film The Wiz were adapted from the same story.

The considerably darker Return to Oz, was made by Walt Disney Studios in 1985 starring Fairuza Balk as Dorothy.

In 1995, Gregory Maguire released the critically acclaimed novel, Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, an other-side-of-the-story look at the witches of The Wizard of Oz: Glinda and Elphaba (the Wicked Witch of the West). Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman turned it into a musical entitled Wicked in 2003 with Kristin Chenoweth as Glinda and Idina Menzel as Elphaba. Despite mixed reviews from critics, the show was a box office smash. In 2004, it was nominated for 9 Tony Awards, winning 3 (including one for Idina Menzel). There are currently five productions running, on Broadway, on a U.S. national tour, in Chicago, in Los Angeles, and in London's West End.

In 2005, Illusive Arts Entertainment launched Dorothy, a fumetti-style comic book series that is an updating of Baum's original story, though it also references numerous elements of the 1939 film, including starting out in a "colorless" Kansas and referencing dialogue from the film. Absent from the first issue at least is any reference to Toto. Like Return to Oz, this is a much darker take on the story, with Dorothy (portrayed in the photographs by Catie Fisher) depicted as a rebellious, disfranchised teenager who steals her uncle's truck as she runs away.


Several versions were produced prior to the 1939 film:

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1910 film)
Dorothy and the Scarecrow in Oz (1910 film)
His Majesty, the Scarecrow of Oz
The Magic Cloak of Oz
The Wizard of Oz (1921 film - never completed or released)
Wizard of Oz, which includes Oliver Hardy as the Tin Woodman.
The Land of Oz, a Sequel to the 'Wizard of Oz' (1932)
The Wizard of Oz (1933 cartoon)
The Wizard of Oz (1938 short film)

Answer 2

Technically speaking, the 1939 version of The Wizard of Oz was a remake. There was at least one silent version of The Wizard of Oz made in the 1920s.

Answer 3

There is "The Wiz"
and the Muppets Wizard of Oz

Answer 4

They did a film called Return To Oz in the '80s or something.

Answer 5

Yes, we are in Oz, and we have no intention of locating the Wizard of Oz to send us back home to Kansas.

Answer 6

The Wiz, which was a stage musical then a movie. There was also a remake as a made for TV movie a few years ago but I didn't see it and don't remember much about the promos.