Full Oz the Great and Powerful Trailer
RYAN: I’m in Oz, I mean awe… of this trailer!
CAROLINE: I know honey. You must feel like today is a national holiday.
RYAN: It’s the first big Oz movie since 1939 and I’m so excited about it, I almost wanna shoop. There was a teaser trailer and today brings this full length version.
CAROLINE: It looks really cool. I’m excited for you.
RYAN: Thanks! There is a lot of CGI going on but it’s the best that moviemaking has to offer today. I always wondered what Disney or a major movie studio would make of Oz with today’s technology and this is it. And it’s beyond! There are just a couple things that worry me.
CAROLINE: Like what?
RYAN: Rachel Weisz’s accent for one. In the trailer, Mila introduces her as her sister and then Rachel sounds British. Mila appropriately doesn’t, so that’s a strange discrepancy in of itself.
CAROLINE: Oh right. I didn’t pick up on that immediately.
RYAN: But further, and I know I’m coming across as a bit of an Oz/Baum purist here, but consider the public knowledge that JK Rowling wouldn’t even let an American be cast in a Harry Potter film, let alone an American accent in one.
CAROLINE: That is true.
RYAN: And L. Franks Baum’s The Wizard of Oz is credited as the first American fairy tale. That means something.
CAROLINE: Yeah I respect that. You’re an Ozist and owning it.
RYAN: [laughs’ Don’t get me wrong, I’m brewing with anticipation and this trailer really raises the bar even over the teaser trailer. Many shots had me jumping up, giddy for more.
CAROLINE: I like that shot of the two witches in the air… kinda looks like that final wand battle between Harry and Voldemort.
RYAN: …while levitating. It’s brilliant. The only other thing I was looking forward to in this trailer but left empty is theme music. You know how great movies have an identifiable, iconic theme – Star Wars, Indiana Jones, Harry Potter, Jaws, etc…?
CAROLINE: Totally. Danny Elfman’s doing the score. He’s incredible.
RYAN: I love his work and loved his Alice theme. I’m just praying this will be iconic-making and brilliant as well. Music looms very large in the success of previous Oz projects.
CAROLINE: Like the Broadway musical Wicked.
RYAN: And Over the Rainbow. I really wish this movie were a musical, but as it stands, I’m just nervous and hoping the score is genius. It has to be.
CAROLINE: It should be. Just breathe.
RYAN: I just want this movie to make so much money at the box office that Wicked can’t help but go into full prodction immediately! In the meantime, enjoy this gorgeousness: