Warner Bros. Follows the Yellow Brick Road - Slice of Scifi

Warner Bros. has acquired the right to the Oz books, and hopes for a dark edgy series of movies

"The appealing thing about the Baum books to me is how wildly imaginative they are. There are crazy characters from amazing places. I want this to be 'Harry Potter' dark, not 'Seven' dark. My pitch was 'How do we get people who went to Lord of the Rings to embrace this?' I want to create [an interpretation] that has a 2007 wow factor. You’ve still got Dorothy trapped in an odd place, but she's much closer to the Ripley from 'Alien' than a helpless singing girl."

This could suck, of course, but it could also be great. When I was a kid I spent many nights reading those books by flashlight under my covers!