While Game of Thrones was great, do we want to see Toto in that world? Since the show was canceled after just ten episodes, it doesn't look like we do. The first step is that almost every TV show based on The Wizard of Oz tries to update the story and make it "adult." If you look at 2017's Emerald City, which aired on NBC, you may think it's a show that's trying to cash in on the popularity of Game of Thrones. RELATED: Netflix Taps Writer for Wizard of Oz, Alice in Wonderland Crossover What is the secret of the classic movie that no one else has been able to capture? It's actually not that hard to figure out. But through some unknown magic, Judy Garland and the other actors sang and danced their way into everyone's hearts. Quite the opposite The Wizard of Oz starts with an extended sequence on a black and white farm in Kansas that even Kevin Costner would find boring. How is it that an 80-year-old movie can still capture the hearts and minds of children, but a modern retelling of the story as a televised series often falls flat? It isn't as if director Victor Fleming saw the age of YouTube and made a movie that fits into two-minute chunks.
And yet, somehow, there hasn't been a successful version of The Wizard of Oz or any of Baum's other Oz based-stories since the 1939 Warner Brothers musical. Like Superman and Mickey Mouse, these characters and images are ingrained in our minds. There isn't a kid in America, and probably in most of the world, who doesn't know about the Yellow Brick Road or the Wicked Witch of the West. Frank Baum's book series about the land of Oz and its inhabitants have been turned into musicals, plays, comics, cartoons, video games, and every other type of merchandise you can think of. Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion are about as iconic as any fictional characters can be. L.
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