"Oz The Great and Powerful" - trailer

Sam Raimi directs this origin story about the Wizard of Oz starring James Franco. For my money the black and white sequences look amazing while the color ones look like out-takes from Alice in Wonderland, though, to be sure you can never have enough flying monkeys.



Also, I haven't read all the books in the series but since Dorothy's visit to Oz was revealed to have been just a dream how could the Wizard have an origin story? Wouldn't his origin be Dorothy being hit on the head by that screen window?

"Oz The Great and Powerful" opens March 2013.