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Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner from a story by Kapner. Based on L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz books and set 20 years before the events of the original 1900 novel, the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Wizard of Oz.
- $493.3 million
- Danny Elfman
- $215 million
- Joe Roth
Mar 8, 2024 · While Wicked is based on the novel of the same name by Gregory Maguire, Oz the Great and Powerful is loosely based on Frank L. Baum's collective Oz books. Instead of focusing on the rise and fall ...
- Jake Dee
- Cynthia Erivo
- Jon M. Chu
Mar 8, 2013 · Oz, the Great and Powerful is a prequel, telling the story of how a small-town carnival magician named Oscar "Oz" Diggs gets swept away to the Land of Oz.
- Jim Macquarrie
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We all know the 1939 MGM story of “The Wizard of Oz.” Itself based on the 14 book series of turn of the century “OZ” novels by L. Frank Baum (with some moviemaking license, of course), Dorothy gets caught in a twister, her house kills a wicked witch, she travels the Yellow Brick Road to meet the Wizard of Oz and along the way meets Munchkins, a Scarecrow, a Tin Man and a Cowardly Lion.
Mar 6, 2013 · With Oscar relying heavily on the inventions of Thomas Edison, his hero back on Earth, to pull off his biggest trick ever, "Oz the Great and Powerful" finally breaks free of its beautiful but artificial trappings and becomes a story with heart in the final act. Thing is, we know Oz and its wizard and those witches and the Munchkins are destined ...
Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner from a story by Kapner. Based on L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz books and set 20 years before the events of the original 1900 novel, the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, The Wizard of Oz. Starring James Franco ...
Mar 7, 2013 · Oz the Great and Powerful tells the story of how the Wizard came to Oz, answering a question I suspect no one was asking, but with considerable digital wizardry. The prequel begins in black and ...
