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[Boem]

Trailer here: http://deadline.com/2016/11/emerald...-oz-vincent-donofrio-tarsem-singh-1201859450/
Youtube link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRCKdYORpiE

Since HBO’s juggernaut hit series debuted in 2011, numerous “[X], but like Game of Thrones” concepts have been tossed around by TV creators on the regular. Few of them have been made so far, but NBC’s upcoming Tarsem Singh-directed drama Emerald City is gunning for the label. A dark new take on the Land of Oz fantasy setting created by L. Frank Baum that began with his The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz, the show stars Vincent D’Onofrio as the Wizard and Adria Arjona as an older version of Dorothy Gale. Emerald City sees Dorothy transported by tornado along with a K9 police dog into a mystical land of competing realms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy.

So yeah, it's Wizard of Oz combined with Game of Thrones. I'll be honest, it looked a bit like a parody trailer to me. I don't really get the fascination with redoing fairy tales in gritty settings (surely nobody can do it better than Fables), and especially Wizard of Oz seems overplayed at this point.

Looks pretty for an NBC show though I guess, but it feels like the Game of Thrones inspiration is definitely way too much on the nose. I understand (and appreciate, in a way) that NBC wants to go after that Game of Thrones crowd, but surely you can do better than mixing it up with The Wizard of Oz? There are plenty of high quality modern scifi/fantasy books that are screaming for tv adaptions.

 

[LostMyNarbles]

What......what did I just watch?

 

[Santiako]

That was hilarious, but I don't think it wanted to be funny.

 

[Boem]

Yeah it definitely looks like an SNL sketch with a lot of money thrown at it.

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

Is that dude she kisses supposed to be the scarecrow?

Hahahahaha

 

[Volimar]

Wasn't the book a bit darker than the film anyway?

 

[hythloday]

I don't remember there being Dothraki in Oz.

 

[Damerman]

Adria arjona... mmmm

 

[D4Danger]

Is that dude she kisses supposed to be the scarecrow?

Hahahahaha

even the actors are like "are we actually doing this?"

 

[ElectricBlanketFire]

I laughed out loud...though I don't think I was supposed to.

 

[What did he mean by this?]

Edgy Wizard of Oz?

For God's sake, I'll watch it

I dont watch Game of Thrones, but I'll watch this

 

[Retro]

Hey, it can't possibly be worse than that godawful Tin Man Miniseries Sci-fi did a few years back...

< watches trailer >

I was so very, very wrong.

Reminds me of their Dracula series, which was a wretched, miserable heap of rubbish. I guess NBC's just going to plunder the public domain and create "serious, dark re-imaginings" from here on out.

 

[Iadien]

I thought the trailer was alright, so I'll at least check it out.

 

[OricWindstar]

Is this for sure not on CW?

 

[Corpekata]

Actually burst out laughing at the scarecrow (?) having been crucified.

 

[Soapbox Killer]

Kingpin is in it so I'll watch an episode or 2 but that trailer did not inspire awesomeness at all.

 

[Derwind]

This is the perfect example of a show trying too hard.

Next, lets get a gritty interpretation of Winnie the Pooh please...

 

[SuperStiltzkin]

Kingpin is in it so I'll watch an episode or 2 but that trailer did not inspire awesomeness at all.

Would be better if he stayed as a barbarian though.

 

[squall23]

Of course Dorothy awakens into magic powers and her companions are powerful warriors.

 

[JeTmAn81]

Lame. Way too serious and generic. Have they read the Oz books?

 

[Santiako]

Lame. Way too serious and generic. Have they read the Oz books?

They read the wikipedia entry.

 

[SchrodingerC]

Is that dude she kisses supposed to be the scarecrow?

Hahahahaha

Are they really going with Sexy Scarecrow(if that is him)?

 

[Discotheque]

That looks like such dogshit lmao

 

[Freeza Under The Shower]

Hey, it can't possibly be worse than that godawful Tin Man Miniseries Sci-fi did a few years back...

Doesn't anyone tell fantasy writers not to use the line "a storm is coming" in a literal manner? It's literally worse than "it was a dark and stormy night". Or "we're not so different". I cringe immediately when I hear it on account of how it signifies bad writing.

The only reason The Terminator (1984) got away with it was because it was a literal phrase for the pump station character, and a metaphorical / predictive one for Sarah Connor, so that it avoided the trope.

 

[Belfast]

Still waiting on a truly faithful adaptation of the books. Return to Oz is still the closest they've gotten.

 

[hydruxo]

The CGI at 1:47 literally made me bust out laughing

This looks god awful

 

[hosannainexcelsis]

Wasn't the book a bit darker than the film anyway?

It sure wasn't this.

 

[Davey Cakes]

This looks fucking horrible.

 

[arts&crafts]

Has this been cancelled yet?

 

[whyamihere]

There's no way you can make a version of "War is coming to Oz" sound cool.

Decent aesthetic though. Tarsem gonna Tarsem.

 

[Razgriz-Specter]

Would rather take a Once Upon A Time spinoff.

 

[ErasureAcer]

GOREN lives.

I'll give it a shot for D'Onofrio.

 

[gforguava]

This looks terrible in all the right ways, can't wait.

 

[Ninja Scooter]

Network television is the fucking worst.

 

[Boem]

My brother's kids have been watching this mess on a loop for ages, so I have a particular distaste for anything involving The Wizard of Oz at this point:

And no, it's not great because of the Muppets. It's just a straight to dvd mess. It's no Christmas Carol/Treasure Island, that's for sure.

This show looks like it's even worse. It doesn't even have Pepe to save it.

Also, I did the thing where you watch Wizard of Oz timed with Dark Side of the Moon while on mushrooms with a friend back in college. It was amazing, but the trip turned nasty the moment they arrived in Emerald City. It was just too green and weird. Also the lion freaked us the hell out. We just had to turn the movie off and have a nice, quiet sit down in my friends back yard for a while to recover.

So fuck Wizard of Oz and everything about it.

 

[Monocle]

This looks terrible in all the right ways, can't wait.

This.

 

[squidyj]

To be honest, when I saw the cop car I was worried it might be a police procedural in Oz.

 

[Zoe]

Tin Man wasn't bad enough?

Wasn't the book a bit darker than the film anyway?

Nothing like this. It was still completely a children's series.

 

[Fury451]

Stay losing network tv

 

[KeyBladerXIII]

Would rather take a Once Upon A Time spinoff.

At least that show does things interesting, like hooking Dorothy up with Red Riding Hood.

 

[Extra Sauce]

This is what you get for not watching Hannibal.

 

[BewareTheBatsie]

I can't at sexy crucified scarecrow.

 

[Nudull]

It's like someone got drunk writing a Once Upon a Time fanfic.

 

[Chase17]

lol


I don't know what I was expecting

 

[see5harp]

This look dumb as fuck.

 

[kulapik]

They should have kept it cancelled.

 

[SENPAIatLARGE]

I can't wait for Dorothy to defeat the wicked witch with her T.I.N.M.A.N power suit crafted by the wizard of Oz.

 

[LumpOfCole]

A lot of that looks exactly like the art style of Guild Wars 2. Anet Presents 'The Wizard of Tyria'.

 

[Dan]

Can we go back to the 90s when broadcast networks only churned out shit like this as three-night events?

Is that D'Onofrio busting out his Orson Welles impression?

 

[sarcastor]

This is some syfy level of crap

I guess all the money went to GOT?