No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either.
"Tin Man" offers a different vision of the "Wizard of Oz" crew.
"It's postmodern, more like Indiana Jones than a fairy tale," said Deschanel, whose Dorothy -- the role immortalized by Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" -- is a disaffected, motorcycle-riding waitress called DG.
Based on L. Frank Baum's novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz," which inspired the 1939 film classic, Sci Fi's six-hour "Tin Man" is not a musical but a brooding, special effects-driven fantasy.
"The book was written in 1900 and its story still lives," said Robert Halmi Sr., one the executive producers.
"It's a coming-of-age story," Deschanel said of the miniseries airing December 2 through December 4. (MORE)
2 comments:
gotta love the darker view of things!
HIGHLY recommend! All three episodes are running again from 5 til 11:00 on Sunday.
-mdd
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