Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site usceast.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!genrad!decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 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 Article-I.D.: usceast.2141 Posted: Thu Dec 20 23:33:27 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 23-Dec-84 00:23:21 EST References: <2179@garfield.UUCP> <3768@ucbvax.ARPA> <3302@mit-eddie.UUCP> <217@ahuta.UUCP> <1299@eosp1.UUCP> Reply-To: ted@usceast.UUCP (System Programmer) Organization: Csci Dept, U of S. Carolina, Columbia Lines: 37 Xref: watmath net.movies:5321 net.games.trivia:1479 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 -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted 6536 Brookside Circle ...akgua!usceast!ted Columbia, SC 29206 ("Deep space is my dwelling place, the stars my destination") -------------------------------------------------------------------------------