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From: ted@usceast.UUCP (Ted Nolan)
Newsgroups: net.movies,net.games.trivia
Subject: Re: Time between movies and sequels (Oz) - a tangled web
Message-ID: <2141@usceast.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 20-Dec-84 23:33:27 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 20 23:33:27 1984
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Summary: 

In article <1299@eosp1.UUCP> robison@eosp1.UUCP (Tobias D. Robison) writes:
>In article <217@ahuta.UUCP> ecl@ahuta.UUCP (e.leeper) writes:
>>REFERENCES:  <2179@garfield.UUCP> <3768@ucbvax.ARPA>, <3302@mit-eddie.UUCP>
>>
>>> Well, a sequel to "The Wizard of Oz" was being made this past year.
>>> It is a real sequel, not a remake.
>>
>>No, not really.  It's a movie based on a couple of sequels to the book that the
>>first movie was based on, but Kurtz et al emphasize that it's not a sequel to
>>the 1939 WIZARD OF OZ (or to THE WIZ. for that matter).
>
>Seems to me it's a sequel!  It is a movie based upon sequels to the book from
>which the original movie was made.  You might as well say that return of the Jedi
>is not a sequel because it was based upon a different script...
>
>The Wiazard of OZ movie is in general an improvement over the book.  I wonder
>if the new movie will do as well?
>
>  - Toby Robison (not Robinson!)
>  {allegra, decvax!ittvax, fisher, princeton}!eosp1!robison

This brings to mind an (I hope) interesting observation.  When the movie
Moonraker came out, the story was so utterly unlike Felming's original
book, that instead of rereleasing the book as a movie tie-in - they
had a novelization of the script done instead, so you had a book based on
a movie based on a book, something that I can't think of having happened
before. Now, if someone would just make a tv show from the book...and if
it were picked up as a comic...

			Ted Nolan ..usceast!ted
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