and that's why i had to kill them all

[rone]

In a contemporary re-imagining of the classic tale, Gulliver is a big-talking mailroom clerk who, after he's mistakenly assigned a travel piece on the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men when he washes ashore on the hidden island of Lilliput, home to a population of very tiny people.  At first enslaved by the Lilliputians, and later declared their hero, Gulliver learns that it's how big you are on the inside that counts.

Comments

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Why is it that the rest of the series gets no respect from Hollywood?

[haineux.livejournal.com]

You certainly can claim that "Return To Oz" got no respect from Hollywood, but it contains much more of the original books than its predecessor, and is weird enough to scare the bodily fluids right out of an impressionable child, so it at least should have YOUR respect.

[mmcirvin.livejournal.com]

It got quite a lot, actually, *before* the MGM movie.

Oz is such a weird case; Baum was personally involved in all the early stage and screen adaptations and most of them sound really screwy, bearing little resemblance to the books, though some elements of them got folded back into the later books.

By the time the Judy Garland movie was made, many people considered the franchise long beaten to death. Given everything, it's remarkable that that is even as faithful an adaptation of the first book as it is.