NBC has ordered 10 episodes of Emerald City, which is the third Oz-related TV project heading our way.
The Wizard of Oz mythology is getting yet another facelift, and this time it's for television. NBC has given a 10-episode straight-to-series order for Emerald City, which is described as "a dramatic and modern reimagining of the tales that include lethal warriors, competing kingdoms, and the infamous wizard as we’ve never seen him before. A head-strong 20-year-old Dorothy Gale is unwittingly sent on an eye-opening journey that thrusts her into the center of an epic and bloody battle for the control of Oz." With 14 books in L. Frank Baum's series about the Land of Oz, there's certainly plenty of material to work with.
Emerald City is from the minds of writer Matt Arnold and Josh Friedman, who will serve as executive producers. Emerald City isn't the only Oz series on its way to the small screen, as the Syfy channel is planning their own Warriors of Oz, a post-apocalyptic re-imagining. Meanwhile CBS is developing Dorothy, which is supposedly a "medical soap set in New York City." We suppose we've heard stranger things.
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