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Bad Ideas 1: Silent Oz

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From a recent interview with Todd McFarlane:

Todd McFarlane tells about the status of his film vision for 'Oz'. With all the "Wizard of Oz" remake action out there, we caught up with Todd McFarlane, who currently has an Oz project of his own aside Josh Olson's feel good PG adaption.

"I always hated Oz’ said Todd McFarlane, the new Wizard of Oz remake director ‘Oz is like DeMilles’ Ten Commandments of the musicals, I prefer a trip to the dentist… I think that even Michael Jackson’s version is better than the 40's version. Every time I watched it as a kid I had to control myself to not jump from the window"

"Here, Oz exists and is a nightmarish place. Not a playground that you would want to stay and sing; is dreadful, you want to leave, to escape and never come back, it is a place that can kill you. But it'll still be about desolation, delusional hopes, you know...."


YERCH. I never was a fan of McFarlane; his Twisted Land of Oz figures were just plain ugly and had nothing to do with the characters they were supposedly based on. In this interview the first thing out of his mouth is how he can't stand the property he's working on. Really gives you a good feeling about this, doesn't it?

I've been playing Silent Hill games, and it occurred to me that you could cross that with Oz. The delusional nutcase that stepped into that fairyland might instead see it as a nightmare world populated by incomprehensible beings. I could do a story bouncing between the two points of view - the Ozites trying to deal with the psycho in their midst, and said psycho freaking out because everything he sees looks like a horror to him. I had the sense to throw this idea away after playing with it a bit because, well, it's good for a laugh and not much more. However, after reading McFarlane's threats remarks I resurrected it in the name of satire.
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Pyramid Head, boss monster of Silent Hill,. (based on actual place !)