Return to Oz. Again.

The Wizard of Oz is one of the very few films I would call perfect. Hell, it still gets me (and many others) to this day and also one of the great examples of putting an actor in an eternal time-capsule. Sure, Judy Garland was doped out of her mind in her final years. But that shit doesn’t matter. She will always be Dorothy Gale – the little farm girl trying to get home to her Aunt Em and Uncle Henry.

Any attempt to revisiting it (even if the intention to merely to adapt the other L. Frank Baum books and not directly reference the 1939 film) will almost certainly fail. Check out the 1985 "sequel" Return to Oz. By no means is it a bad film, but they were begging to fall on their faces by following up Wizard of Oz. Don’t even get me started on last year’s Tin Man mini-series.

There have been various incarnations of a new Oz film in development over the years and I’ve frankly never paid any attention to their status. But that won’t stop Hollywood from trying. Pajiba got their hands on the plot synopsis for Oz: The Return to Emerald City as described below:

It’s a modern-day sequel. The story centers on Dorothy Neil, a bright and ambitious young lawyer for a prestigious law firm in Chicago. Neil is the grand-daughter of Dorothy Gale, who is now an old woman living in Kansas and telling her tales about her time in the land of Oz to a new generation of kids. However, trouble is afoot in Oz, as a new witch is destroying the magic that keeps the entire place running. While babysitting her boss’ kid, the kid and Dorothy Neil are brought back to Oz and united with the Cowardly Lion, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow and tasked with killing an evil witch and restoring order in Oz.

This immediately gives off the Superman Returns and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland vibe. At least it’s not the "Let’s make everything dark and fucked up" take Todd McFarlane was working on. As per Pajiba’s sources, that version is DOA and Return to Emerald City is out to new screenwriters for polishing.