Monday, November 26, 2007

Now, this looks like it might be fun to watch.

`Tin Man' re-imagines `Wizard of Oz'
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.

"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.

As a kid, the flying monkeys scared the bejesus out of me more than the Wicked Witch ever did.

The miniseries will be airing Dec. 2 through Dec. 4 on the Sci-Fi Channel.

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