Writes Mike Fleming, "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. Warner Bros owns the screenplay because Ted Turner bought it along with the MGM library before Warner Bros bought Turner’s empire...Whenever you remake a revered Hollywood film, there’s bound to be controversy, but going right to the original material is certainly an interesting approach."
A BIT OF EDITORIALIZING: Fleming's wrong - going right to the original material is certainly NOT an interesting approach. Gus Van Sant tried it in the '90s with the remake of Psycho, which also used the original script as its source material, and that was a disaster.
What do you think?