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Why The Upcoming ‘Wizard of Oz’ Movie Is The One Fans Have Been Dreaming Of · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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  Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood. It appears that Dorothy is headed back
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  Speaker 1: to Oz with an entirely new film adaptation of the
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  Speaker 1: book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the same novel that
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  Speaker 1: inspired arguably the most popular movie of all time, The
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  Speaker 1: Wizard of Oz. Nicole Cassel, the Emmy winning director of
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  Speaker 1: HBO's hit show Watchman, has been brought on board to
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  Speaker 1: helm the ship and adapt the book. According to Deadline,
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  Speaker 1: it's worth noting that the book that the Wizard of
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  Speaker 1: Oz novels are now public domain, which means anybody can
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  Speaker 1: make a film based on them. However, what isn't public
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  Speaker 1: domain is every design and story element created for the movie,
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  Speaker 1: like Dorothy's ruby red slippers, which aren't in the book.
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  Speaker 1: All of this is owned by Warner Brothers, but since
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  Speaker 1: Warner Brothers is involved with this project, expect all that
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  Speaker 1: classic Wizard of Oz style to be woven into the
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  Speaker 1: project that's direct from Hollywood.