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Hilary Swank and Michelle Williams were director Sam Raimi's first choices for the role of Evanora. [...]	D
Christoph Waltz was in early talks to play a role.	D
The screenplay for this film was featured in the 2010 Blacklist; a list of the "most liked" unmade s [...]	D
Sam Raimi: [Object POV] During the tornado sequence in the hot air balloon, Raimi follows the point- [...]	D
Robert Downey Jr. and Johnny Depp were both offered the role of Oz. Downey wasn't interested; Depp l [...]	D
The taxpayers of the State of Michigan (pop. 9.6M) reimbursed Disney $40 million dollars of this fil [...]	D
Sam Raimi: [familiar actors] Raimi is known to include cameos by friends, family, and favorite actor [...]	D
The cast includes one Oscar winner: Rachel Weisz, and two nominees: James Franco, and Michelle Willi [...]	D
Although the film is cited as heavily "borrowing" details from the famous Il mago di Oz (1939) film, [...]	D
While visiting the Oz cemetery, as Glinda shows Oscar her father's statue. It closely resembles Fran [...]	D
The swamp pixie whistles a tune to Oz, and pressures him to finish the last line. The tune is "Pop G [...]	D
Because Warner Bros. Pictures owns the rights to certain iconic elements of Il mago di Oz (1939) MGM [...]	D
Four of the five main characters from another film by director Sam Raimi, La casa (1981), make cameo [...]	D
At the start of the film, Oscar works with the "Baum Brothers Circus", which is hosted by Frank & Ad [...]	D
Michelle Williams and Mila Kunis both made their screen debut on Baywatch (1989).	D
When Theodora first sees Oz, she advises him to stay out of the water. Theodora later becomes the Wi [...]	D
After the tornado sequence, just before Oz loses control of the balloon, one of the nearby mountaint [...]	D
Michelle Williams' character Annie is marrying a man named John Gale. Director Sam Raimi has confirm [...]	D
In 1991 Donald Abbott, a fan of the original Wizard of Oz story, wrote a prequel novella called How [...]	D
When Theodora and Oz are walking in the Sunflower path the orientation of the Sunflower heads is tow [...]	D
The Tin Man is the only one of Dorothy's three companions in Il mago di Oz (1939) not to be directly [...]	D
To prepare for his role as a circus magician, James Franco received training with magician Lance Bur [...]	D
Before Sam Raimi signed on to direct the film, directors Sam Mendes and Adam Shankman were also repo [...]	D
Some Kansas characters have analogs in Oz, played by the same actors. Frank's is Finley, since both [...]	D
Oz gives his full name as: Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambrose Diggs. That [...]	D
In addition to the legal issues, the film was also faced with delays when several cast members went [...]	D
Last feature of John Paxton, father of actor Bill Paxton and also a frequently partner in Sam Raimi [...]	D
When Theodora weeps over her breakup with Oz, her tears burn into her face, in the way that the orig [...]	D
After the film did well at the Box Office, a Sequel was announced. However, as of 2021, there has be [...]	D
Art director Robert Stromberg cited the Disney animated films Biancaneve e i sette nani (1937), Pino [...]	D
Mila Kunis starred in the movie Ted (2012), where Ted's neighbor Ming had a duck named James Franco.	D
This is the second time Zach Braff has starred in an Oz themed production: in Scrubs: Medici ai prim [...]	D
When he first sees the Emerald City, Oz tells Theodora that green is his favorite color. Later, Theo [...]	D
This is Sam Raimi's first film to be rated PG in the United States. All his previous directorial fil [...]	D
Though this film is ostensibly based only on the series of "Oz" books by L. Frank Baum and not the f [...]	D
Robert Stromberg studied the films of Frank Capra and James Wong Howe to achieve the appropriate Art [...]	D
Producer Joe Roth was intrigued by the prospect of exploring the origins of the Wizard of Oz charact [...]	D
Mila Kunis' Wicked Witch prosthetic make-up demanded four hours to apply and another hour to remove, [...]	D
Chapter 20 of the original novel The Wizard of Oz is "The Dainty China Country." In it, Dorothy and [...]	D
James Franco(Oz) was 33 at the time of filming. Frank Morgan(The Wizard in the original) was 48 duri [...]	D
Sam Raimi: [car] Confirmed by both Raimi and Bruce Campbell, Raimi's personally owned 1973 Oldsmobil [...]	D
The name Theodora is a near-anagram of Dorothea or Dorothy. Theodora becomes the Wicked Witch of the [...]	D
Even though Oz, The Great and Powerful is more based on the novels from L. Frank Baum, the story-lin [...]	D
James Franco previously appeared in Sam Raimi's Spider-Man trilogy, where he played a character name [...]	D
Olivia Wilde, Amy Adams, Blake Lively, Kate Beckinsale, Keira Knightley, Rebecca Hall, and Kristen S [...]	D
Blake Lively was offered the role of Glinda, but chose to do Oliver Stone's Le belve (2012) instead.	D
(Connection to Once Upon A Time) Theodora's transformation into the Wicked Witch is similar to C'era [...]	D
When Oz and Finley first meet, they are almost attacked by a lion. Oz manages to scare it away, hint [...]	D
The film opens in sepia-tone academy ratio for the Kansas scenes, before widening out and blooming i [...]	D
The Emerald City flag's lion is strongly reminiscent of the MGM lion logo (Il mago di Oz (1939) was [...]	D
A puppet of the China Girl was used on set.	D
James Franco and Mila Kunis previously appeared together as the bizarre couple "Taste" and "Whippit" [...]	D
The character Master Tinker may be based on Mister Tinker, an unseen character from L. Frank Baum's [...]	D
This is the second Oz-related movie to be produced by the Disney company. Their first film was Nel f [...]	D
Sam Raimi opted to use practical sets in conjunction with computer-generated imagery: physical sets [...]	D
Joey King, who plays the little girl in the wheelchair, goes on to play Gypsy Rose Blanchard in The [...]	D
This is the third time Mila Kunis circles a role in "Oz". She previously appeared in a stage product [...]	D
Bert Lahr's great-grandson plays a tinker in the movie. Lahr was the Cowardly Lion in Il mago di Oz [...]	D
Sam Raimi had previously directed James Franco (Oz) in Spider-Man 3 (2007), which featured the comic [...]	D
In the book, the Wicked Witch of the East owned magic silver shoes, which were confiscated by the Mu [...]	D
In the opening credits, you can see two figures dancing together. If you look closely at the shadow [...]	D
Director Sam Raimi and composer Danny Elfman had a major falling out during the post-production of S [...]	D
When the Master Tinker demonstrates the image projector to Oz, they are shown wearing goggles with g [...]	D
Zach Braff and Joey King were on set to record their dialogue simultaneously with the other actors, [...]	D
John C. Reilly was considered for the role of Frank.	D
Early on, Oscar makes mention of his shabby jacket. There is a famous story of how a shabby jacket w [...]	D

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