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WB Mulls 'Wizard of Oz' Remake

Warner Bros is in early talks with Robert Zemeckis to direct a live-action remake of the "The Wizard of Oz" and plans to use the original script from the 1939 classic. WB owns the screenplay because Ted Turner bought it along with the MGM library before Warner Bros bought Turner's empire. This latest Oz twist comes as Disney is trying very hard to mount "Oz: The Great And Powerful."

The original "Wizard of Oz" script had 19 writers, with many of them uncredited, including Bert Lahr who played the film's Cowardly Lion. This wouldn't be the first hugely high profile remake for Zemeckis; he's in the middle of a "Yellow Submarine" animated redux for Disney, scheduled for a 2012 release.

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