They call him Lucas (Oliver Jackson-Cohen), but he should have been called Jon Scaresnow. But first, Dorothy meets a man bloodied and battered and hanging on a cross.
Of course, it’s not long before Dorothy is off to find the Emerald City, this show’s version of King’s Landing, while stories of a great evil on the horizon hang in the air. They don’t sing “The Lollipop Guild” they try to drown Dorothy as a witch, for only a witch could kill another witch. She then encounters a group of fur-wearing, bearded gentlemen who look vaguely like Pacific Northwest Indigenous People-the show’s reimagining of the Munchkins as burly warriors. She's dropped in a snowy forest, where she runs over East ( Florence Kasumba), who looks kind of like “A View to a Kill”-era Grace Jones. Basically, "Game of Thrones" is not a show that can be easily mimicked.ĭorothy Gale (Adria Arjona) is a 20-year-old Kansas woman swept up in a Network-Caliber CGI tornado while taking cover in a cop car. It's an ambitious concept, but it requires a depth of screenwriting and production values that this show can’t bring to life. There’s clearly more than enough depth to the universe Baum created to justify turning it into an intricately plotted fantasy series, and taking a more serious approach than ABC's "Once Upon a Time" is a good idea. Martin’s novels isn’t a bad idea on paper. Frank Baum’s Oz books?” Welcome to “Emerald City,” a show that owes more to HBO's Emmy-winner than any musical version of “ The Wizard of Oz.” Taking the political allegory reading of Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and merging it with the complex mythologies of George R.R.
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Shaun Cassidy also serves as an executive producer on the series while The Cell helmer Tarsem Singh has come on-board as director.“What if we made 'Game of Thrones' but used the template of L. This new take on Emerald City – which includes numerous creative changes, most notably the addition of Dorothy’s K9 police dog – is set up at NBC’s sister studio Universal television and is being shepherded by David Schulner, who replaces Josh Friedman as writer and EP. It was only after the property was redeveloped by David Schulner that NBC decided to move forward. The project was initially greenlit at NBC in 2014, but before production could get underway the network opted not to proceed with Emerald City the series citing creative differences with writer/showrunner/executive producer Josh Friedman. In its relatively short life-span, Emerald City has certainly had something of a troubled history. True Detective star Adria Arjona leads the cast as the 20 year old Dorthy Gale, while other cast members include Ana Ularu (The Borgias), Gerran Howell ( Young Dracula), Jordan Loughran (Evermoor), Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Mr Selfridge) and Mido Hamada (The Dovekeepers).
Vincent D’Onofrio is the latest actor to board the cast of Emerald City since NBC picked up the series back in April. This is the fabled Land of Oz in a way you’ve never seen before, where wicked witches don’t stay dead for long and a young girl becomes a headstrong warrior who holds the fate of kingdoms in her hands. He rules through inspiration, fear and a tenuous accord with the grand witches.Įmerald City follows 20-year-old Dorothy and her K9 police dog who are transported to another world, one far removed from our own - a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy. The character is described as “the enigmatic leader of Emerald City” who is a man of science in a world of magic. The actor has been cast as one of the leads in the network’s upcoming limited event series Emerald City, TVWise has learned.ĭ’Onofrio, who is coming off of a starring role on Netflix’s first Marvel series Daredevil, will play the infamous Wizard of Oz. Law & Order Criminal Intent star Vincent D’Onofrio is returning to NBC, where the first six seasons of the Law & Order spin-off aired before segueing to USA Network.
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