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Oz the Great and Powerful is a 2013 American fantasy adventure film directed by Sam Raimi and written by David Lindsay-Abaire and Mitchell Kapner from a story by Kapner. Based on L. Frank Baum's early 20th century Oz books and set 20 years before the events of the original 1900 novel, [5] the film is a spiritual prequel to the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. [6]
He meets Theodora (Mila Kunis), a Good Witch who informs him of a prophecy of a wizard who comes from another place and becomes the King of Oz by defeating the Wicked Witch. At home, he was an ...
In 1939, Hamilton played the role of the Wicked Witch of the West, opposite Judy Garland's Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz, her most famous role, and one of the screen's most memorable villains. Hamilton was cast after Gale Sondergaard , who was first considered for the role, albeit as a more glamorous witch with a musical scene, declined the ...
Her other major films include the action films Max Payne (2008) and The Book of Eli (2010), the romantic comedy Friends with Benefits (2011), the fantasy film Oz the Great and Powerful (2013)—as the Wicked Witch of the West—and the comedies Ted (2012), Bad Moms (2016) and its sequel, A Bad Moms Christmas (2017).
Sam Raimi’s poppy-induced bore is an overblown attempt to capture the magic of “Wicked,” as the film unspools its own origin story of the Wizard (James Franco), Glinda (Michelle Williams ...
With Wicked in theaters, PEOPLE is looking back at The Wizard of Oz. Margaret Hamilton, the actress who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was burned on set, and removing the makeup around the ...
Mila Kunis portrays the Wicked Witch of the West, who is named Theodora, in the 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful. In this version, she is portrayed as a 'good witch' and as the younger sister of Evanora ( Rachel Weisz ), who is at war with Glinda ( Michelle Williams ) for control of Oz; Theodora wants nothing more than for peace to come back ...
Originally adapted from Gregory Maguire’s 1995 novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, the Broadway show is an Oz prequel that details how Elphaba (originally played by ...