"Emerald city" will be a series in the spirit of the "Game of thrones"

The NBC will remove the mini-series "emerald city" on motives of the book Limena Frank Baum. Inform Deadline.

The writer and one of the producers of the 10-serial film made by Josh Friedman, who worked on the movie "war of the worlds" (2006), "the Black Dahlia" (2006) and TV series "terminator: the Battle for the future". The Director will be Matthew Arnold, today working on a television series "Sibir" ("Siberia"). Casting of actors for the main role in the television movie has not yet begun.

Developers outline of the "emerald city", as a "modern and gloomy" rethinking traditional stories Baum about the land of Oz "in the spirit of the television series "Game of thrones"". The script will be based on some aspects of the books of the South American writer and will contain a deadly battle and struggle for the throne, and the legendary magician of the emerald city will shown "the way it has never seen."

In the TV series will be about matured Dorothy Gale, the main heroine of several extraordinary stories of literature. 20-year-old young woman again gets to the land of Oz, where he first visited as a child, and her eyes unfolds "the bloody struggle for power" in the magic country.

Series Limena Frank Baum (1856-1919) about the land of Oz contains 14 books. Almost all of them were filmed. The most famous is an adaptation of "the Wizard of Oz" with Judy garland in the main role. In 2013, he released the film of Sam Raimi's "Oz: the Great and terrible" with James Franco and Mila kunis in the main roles

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