Boorman Helms Animated Oz
John Boorman is attached to direct a $25 million computer-animated movie of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, an adaptation of L. Frank Baum's original novel, Variety reported.
Produced by Laurent Rodon and Claude Gorvsky at France's Films Actions and John Boorman's longtime associate Kieran Corrigan, and currently in preproduction, Oz is written by Boorman, Ron Mita and Jim McClain (Robots). It's slated for a summer 2010 delivery.
The English-language adaptation maintains the tale's main characters and settings. Unlike the MGM classic, however, it's not a musical.
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