Hollywood, CA – ‘I always hated Oz’ said Tim Burton, the new Wizard of Oz remake director ‘Oz is like DeMilles’ Ten Commandments of the musicals, I prefer a trip to the dentist… I think that even Michael Jackson’s version is better than the 40's version. Every time I watched it as a kid I had to control myself to not jump from the window’We asked about the casting the answer was fast: ‘Johnny Depp as Scarecrow, Johnny Depp as Tin Man and Johnny Depp as Cowardly Lion. We still don’t have a Dorothy, Helena Bonham Carter will be the Wicked Witch of the West. We wanted Paul Giamatti to play Oz, but he already signed contract to the Columbo remake, so, I don’t know. Jude Law is an alternative... and Toto will be CG, as everything else’
And then we had to ask him if wouldn't be strange to Dorothy to have three look-a-likes Johnny Depps as family members ‘Oh, that ending… we are moving to another direction… is always family, family, family, enough. It also means that Oz was in her imagination only. That’s cheap. (Tim Burton makes a funny voice) Oh, so that all was just a dream… I hate that. Here, Oz exists and is a nightmarish place. Not a playground that you would want to stay and sing; is dreadful, you want to leave, to escape and never come back, it is a place that can kill you. But it'll still be a musical... about desolation, delusional hopes, you know… for kids.’
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