Olson on bringing us back into the Emerald City

Throughout our movie-going lives we have seen a couple of different versions of the classic tale of The Wizard of Oz, mainly the version that stars Judy Garland. Then there’s the sequel-esque version of the story that was released in 1985 called Return to Oz, giving the mysterious land a strange yet fantastic look on another version of Oz. Now it looks like we can get a darker and even possibly more exciting sequel of sorts to the tale as Josh Olson spills the beans on his script entitled Oz: Return to the Emerald City.

Olson has been knee-deep in putting together the different take on the magical city. If your wondering who exactly he is, you could easily recall his script work in the Viggo Mortensen starring film A History of Violence or one of the awesome little stories within Batman: Gotham Knight. Now at this point your some what aware of what the writer is capable of, now we’ll dish out what Pajiba and First Showing found out on the plot.:

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 story line has been recycled a bit before, going from Hook to the twisted 2000 PC game called American McGee’s Alice, but without so much carnage. If put in the right hands this could end up being something neat to take part of when it comes to sitting in a theater and being part of the general audience. The concept is intriguing enough, now we just have to sit back, wait and see how the end result will look like.