In the development season for next year’s new TV, there have already been three Wizard Of Oz-inspired TV projects scheduled to tie in with that classic movie’s 75th anniversary. NBC has Emerald City; CBS has a medical drama called Dorothy; and Syfy is doing a Warriors Of Oz miniseries.
The CW is in talks to make that four, as Heroes creator Tim Kring and executive producers Adam Armus and Kay Foster (who also worked on Heroes) are working on adapting Dorothy Must Die, based on an upcoming novel by Danielle Paige.
Here is how Deadline describes the project:
It is a revisionist take on the classic tale set in present day, 80 years after Dorothy Gale supposedly came home. In reality, the magically-ever-youthful Dorothy has stayed in Oz, presiding over a now fascist fairyland with her perfectly manicured iron fist and the help of her henchmen – the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion. But when another young woman from Kansas is swept up in a tornado and magically dropped into this war-torn Oz, our hero discovers a revolutionary underground of witches and enchanted beings only to learn that she is destined to lead their people in the fight to reclaim Oz from a power-hungry Dorothy’s ruthless clutches.
Obviously, not every project in development will make it somewhere over the rainbow, but we’ll be watching to see how far this one goes down the yellow brick road. Right now, Deadline says they are “in negotiations” which could mean anything.
