The director insisted all the scripts be written before they started shooting. The plan was to film in one place and do only one reshoot and then move on. Josh Friedman was brought on as the first showrunner, but the series stalled due to creative differences. While Cassidy was intrigued, he was intent on making it relevant.
Most people know the Oz story from the beloved Judy Garland musical. So when she arrives in the strange land, Dorothy finds she has a gun and a police dog. No little Toto. They both resent the Wizard and look for an opening to overthrow him. When Dorothy accidently kills their sister β the witch of the east β she inherits jeweled gloves instead of shoes that give her powers, but the sisters and the Wizard fear her.
So they send agents to kill her. Along the way, Dorothy meets sort of a scarecrow Oliver Jackson-Cohen , a former soldier who had been left for dead while tied to a cross. They also cross paths with some very bizarre and interesting characters, including one who changes sex. Though some of the inspiration is drawn from the Baum books, the interpretation is decidedly adult. It might seem that casting the year-old Arjona as Dorothy might be a risk on such an expensive project. At 12, she moved to Miami where she lived until she was 18 and then decided to go to New York City to study acting.
It fits with our time. After he read it, he and Singh wanted to dig deeper into the character, who is still something of a con artist. His name in the series is Frank Morgan, a little joke since that was the name of the actor who played the Wizard in the film. Show Caption. By Rob Lowman rlowman scng. More in Things to do.
