On November 21, the long-awaited “Wicked: For Good” arrives, the second and final installment of the saga starring Cynthia Erivo, Ariana Grande and Jonathan Bailey, based on the novel by Cynthia Erivo. Gregory Maguire “Wicked: Memoirs of a Wicked Witch” is based on the legendary story of the “Wizard of Oz”.
And the “evil” universe is two films after it triumphed as a musical Broadway The novel, which is a correct adaptation of the story “The Wizard of Oz”, is written by… L. Frank Baum Who has written as many as 13 books about this magical world, which has also inspired various productions in both film and television.
“The Wizard of Oz” (1939)
When naming this story, the first thing that comes to my mind is the movie that takes the same name from the first novel he wrote. L. Frank Baum About this magical world. with Judy Garland like Dorothydirected by Victor FlemingThe film is now an iconic classic, but it is also riddled with controversy due to everything that surrounded its filming and because the lead actress, who was only 16 years old, was characterized by the consumption of drugs that kept her energy and weight down during long working hours. Despite this, the story is one of the references when it comes to marking the basic story on which other adaptations are based.
“Oz: The Wonderful World” (1985)
This film, produced by Walt Disney Pictures, will be a sequel to the well-known story, which deals with the story of Dorothy In his continuations of the novels Boomis more focused on “Ozma of Oz”, but compared to “The Wizard of Oz” from 1939, it has a darker and more surreal tone, but at the same time it is one of the author’s most faithful books.
“Oz: Fantasy World” (2013)
We return once again to the world of “Wicked”, an alternative adaptation of the traditional film “The Wizard of Oz”, also from the Disney studio, which includes an all-star cast James Franco, Mila Kunis, Rachel Weisz and Michelle Williams In a sort of prologue, but instead of dealing with the history of witches, it goes through the origins of The Wizard of Oz, before Dorothy arrives.
“The Tin Man” (2007)
In another free adaptation of “The Wizard of Oz” is this three-episode TV series Zooey Deschanel She plays Dorothy, who must discover her own identity when she is introduced to the world of The Outer Zone (OZ), which aired on the Sci-Fi Channel.
“Emerald City” (2017)
Another free adaptation of the famous story was also the TV series “Emerald City”, a 10-episode season, which presents a darker and more adult vision of the story, in which Dorothy turns 20, and which combines moments from the first three books: “The Wizard of Oz”, “The Wonderful Land of Oz” and “Ozma of Oz”, by Matthew Arnold And it was the work of NBC Universal Television.