Oz the Great and Powerful

                                         Release date  March 8, 2013

A great and powerful Oz is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film will be directed by Sam Raimi. Romance film adapted from L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz in 1900, and is a prequel to both the novel and 1939 movie The Wizard of Oz. Film stars James Franco as Oscar Diggs, better known as the "Wizard of Oz". It also stars Mila Kunis as Theodora, Michelle Williams as Glinda and Rachel Weisz as Evanora movie will be released by Walt Disney Pictures in traditional 2D, as well as Disney Digital 3D, RealD 3D and IMAX 3D format.

Summary of the plot

Raimi's book and film set in the 1939 movie news 1900 - the Oscars of the witch's corner (James Franco), Ethics questionable shot to land in Kansas to Oz bright dust and reputation of his fortune to a photograph he (Mila Kunis) Evanora and (Rachel Weisz ) is a WITCH Theodora convinced that hit the jackpot ... He witch, and great that everyone waiting list. Linda (Michelle Williams), as long as you do not get it. Drawn into the problems of the people living in the beautiful Land of Oz reluctantly, Oscar has found that it is better, before it's too late, it's not bad. Psychedelic Art and the ingenuity of the "magic" to take a bit of a miracle, even the mighty Wizard of Oz, it is not only. But good as Oscar.

History
Snow White and the seven dwarfs in 1937, after the successful release, Walt Disney L. The first animated film based on Frank Baum's Oz books will be produced. As Roy Disney, chairman of Walt Disney Studios, and in 1938, Louis B. Samuel Goldwyn Mayer for the first book, it sells the movie rights to the property was sold Baum said. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced by the project of the famous Judy Garland in the musical adaptation, released the following year.
Walt Disney TV series, the live-action film and leave Disneyland, Rainbow Road to Oz, and in 1954, for use in the rest of Baum's Oz books, thirteen, when you get the movie rights, Walt Disney Productions and have never been . The official sequel to the MGM film Journey Back to Oz, produced by Filmation animated film was released in 1974. presented the history of the Oz series Disney's Return to Oz in 1985 for the film in 1939 as a continuation of a non-official, although in recent years has become a cult classic, both critically and commercially, performed poorly. 

Development
Sam Raimi signed on to direct the film director Sam Mendes and Adam Shankman previously reported to be the top candidate. Danny Elfman big and strong, in June 2011, even though Elfman to score for their chosen is a war Raimi on the Spider-Man 2 (2004), and they would never work together again, declared.
The script by Joe Roth, a producer Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire serve as written by. Interview, director Sam Raimi L. Kapner Frank Baum's book The Wizard of information about the use of the expression, but for the film, the classic 1939 film "love will flourish." According to the Hollywood reporter for the end, Disney wanted to reduce the budget about $ 200 million in film production.
 
Robert Downey Jr. Raimi's first choice for the part was in Oz. refuses to Downey, Johnny Depp has been associated with a role to play. At the end of February 2011, the final negotiations to star in this film, James Franco. This Franco and Raimi Spider-Man trilogy, which has worked with the following report for the first time. Although it will work with Franco, Raimi, Ted Raimi, brother of actor in TV and film came out and he will be joined by Joxer on Xena, and the Evil Dead movies and TV on the Xena and Hercules, Jack of All Trades Autolycus, and tyrannize Bruce Campbell, who played the hero, played .
Extras casting calls looking for a local to be given. with a 3D camera for the photographer's Oz the Great and Powerful Pontiac, Michigan began in July 2011.