There's a preview for the upcoming SciFi Channel miniseries Tin Man up on YouTube. It's a more modern and sinister take on The Wizard of Oz. The video is also embedded after the jump.
Apparently, the Outer Zone (Oz. Outer Zone. Get it?) is ruled by an evil sorceress named Azkadellia (what? Not Elphaba? I guess you'll have to stick to the musical for that). Following in the tradition of the strong female protagonist, Dorothy "DG" Gale is now a midwestern waitress caught in a freak storm that transports her to the Outer Zone where she has to kick butt and take names.
I'm kind of torn about what to think of it. Too often has a modern reimagining of a property resulted in crap (Flash Gordon anyone?). Still, I find cute the little tips of the hat to the past such as how Dorothy "DG" Gale's waitressing costume mimics the 1939 classic worn by Judy Garland. Maybe I'll check it out.
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10-07-2007 @ 6:21PM
nickmagoo said...
wow...that looks HORRIBLE. well, it LOOKS good, but the dialogue sounded like it was from a straight to video horror flick. reimagined for a new generation??? ugh, they should be ashamed of themselves...
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10-07-2007 @ 7:06PM
Cody said...
How bout a new Lost Room miniseries Sci-Fi! Stop wasting money on this crap.
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10-07-2007 @ 8:57PM
Jimmy said...
"Television event of the year?" "Bold reimagining?" Maybe by the crappy standards of the Sci Fi Channel, but it looks like yet another hackneyed failure. For a few years Sci Fi was know for some really great mini-series: Dune and Children of Dune, Taken, Battlestar Galactica, heck I'll even give them The Triangle, but lately it's just one piece of crap after another. What amazes me is that Sci Fi can get name stars to appear in this crap. Is Richard Dreyfuss that hard up for work? There are so many great science fiction and fantasy novels that Sci Fi could turn into a mini-series, even with their tight-fisted budget constraints, but time an again they take this route. It no wonder Sci Fi hasn't had a really good, successful mini-series since Battlestar Galactica.
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10-08-2007 @ 8:15AM
hessian said...
Welcome to the O.Z., bitch.
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10-07-2007 @ 10:31PM
Beatriz said...
It doesn't look that bad, at least not to me, it's meh, I'll still watch it for Zooey Deschanel, but it's not like it'll count towards actual ratings.
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10-07-2007 @ 10:33PM
Gordon Werner said...
Whatever happened to Riverworld? wasn't that going to be a series? or was it only intended to be that one movie?
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10-08-2007 @ 1:00AM
Oreo said...
Riverworld was a disaster of a movie. I was watching it, saw the ending and thought "Is the sequel up next?" and it was never made! The whole movie was a lead up and it never went anywhere!
And Jimmy wasn't "The Triangle", which I thought was blah, the mini-series from 2005? The Lost Door was the 2006 miniseries so they only had one "bad" miniseries.
But Sci-fi is insane. They gave the ok for 22 episodes of Painkiller Jane after a bad mini-series they made years ago, then they gave Flash Gordon 22 episode. Yet they only give Stargate and BSG 20 episode seasons, don't make Riverworld into a trilogy, and don't even bother giving The Lost Room a 13 episode season.
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10-08-2007 @ 8:55AM
Pawchikapawpaw said...
michael bluth says: "don't call it that."
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10-08-2007 @ 2:44AM
Sam said...
I think that could actually be ok, maybe. I'm excited for alan cumming, and, ok, the dialogue kinda sucked
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10-08-2007 @ 7:56AM
Karen said...
The O.Z.?? Is this how they do it in the O.Z., bitch?
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10-08-2007 @ 11:04AM
Andrew said...
I'm looking forward to this - SciFi tends to do a good job with these sorts of things. As far as remakes go, Battlestar Galactica? Bionic Woman?
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12-05-2007 @ 12:58PM
Barb said...
OK, OK !!! You are all WRONG The "Tin Man" was a good movie. I work for a living so I don't get alot of t.v time but I made time from 9-11 for 3 nights in a row and I thought it was alot better than most of the crap out there now !And according to the ratings I wasn't the only one ...