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Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest: Hot Wheels Has Found Its Director, and He’s Appropriately One of the Hottest in Town · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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  Speaker 2: The Wizard of Oz was long considered challenging ip to
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  Speaker 2: reimagine successfully in the cinema until director John m. Hue
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  Speaker 2: blue audiences and critics away with Wicked, which is likely
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  Speaker 2: one of the reasons Mattel just tapped John to helm
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  Speaker 2: another tough adaptation, Hot Wheels. The filmmakers signed to turn
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  Speaker 2: the popular automotive kids toy into a live action feature film,
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  Speaker 2: which has been in development since twenty nineteen, but it's
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  Speaker 2: stalled because of the complexity of turning essentially a series
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  Speaker 2: of toy cars into something more dynamic, but Mattel and
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  Speaker 2: Warner think John is the man for the job. They've
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  Speaker 2: also hired writers Jewel Taylor and Tony Rettenmeyer, who previously
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  Speaker 2: provided the scripts for Creed two and Space Jam, a
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  Speaker 2: new legacy now. Given the billion dollar success of Barbie
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  Speaker 2: and the broad popularity of the toy, Mattel is hopeful
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  Speaker 2: Hot Wheels can follow suit.
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  Speaker 1: That's direct from Hollywood.