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We’re off to see the wizard—and we hear it’s going to be nothing at all like the trip Dorothy took down the yellow brick road.
James Franco stars in the upcoming Oz: The Excellent and Effective, a prequel to the traditional Judy Garland film told from the Wizard’s point of view.
So will Franco be belting out a cover of “Someplace Above the Rainbow?” Or “Defying Gravity” à la Idina Menzel in Broadway’s Wicked?
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Not at all!
“It’s just before the Scarecrow and the Tin Man and Dorothy and all that,” Abigail Spencer, who plays the Wizard’s assistant May possibly, informed me at the recent L.A. Gay & Lesbian Center benefit for homeless youth providers at the Sunset Tower hotel. “It actually goes deeper into how that story came to be.
“It truly is what the books are based on,” she added. “This is the genuine story and I assume this is truly what the writer [L. Frank Baum] intended when he wrote them.”
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Michelle Williams, Mila Kunis and Rachel Weisz also star in the Sam Raimi-directed flick. It was recently reported that Raimi will pay out homage to the 1939 musical movie by starting in black-and-white prior to transitioning to color.
Spencer is also reteaming up with Franco on Wrong Number, a romantic comedy that she wrote and will star in opposite newcomer Andrew Leeds. Franco is creating and is set to make a cameo, Spencer said.
Also at the Gay & Lesbian Center occasion, which honored stylist reality star Rachel Zoe, have been Anne Hathaway, Kelly Osbourne, Mandy Moore, Garcelle Beauvais, Perry Reeves, Jennifer Grey and Style Police‘s George Kotsiopoulos.
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