In case Return to Oz didn’t scare you enough, Legendary is making a new, darker Wizard of Oz show

Hey, remember when you watched The Wizard of Oz for the first time and thought how wonderfully whimsical and fun it was? Then, if you’re me, you watched 1985’s Return to Oz and the nightmares never stopped?

Let’s see, there was Dorothy being forced to stay in an insane asylum where she got electroshock therapy, talking rocks with horrifying faces that spied on her, those terrifying Wheelers…I mean, what even where those things? Oh, and then there was Jack Pumpkinhead, the scariest best friend a girl could ask for, and a witch named Princess Mombi who had a bunch of interchangeable heads. This was nightmare fuel for my young impressionable mind, and I still don’t think I’m over it.

Anyway, NBC thought it could capitalize on the darkness of L. Frank Baum’s original Oz novels (which weren’t exactly kid-friendly as we currently understand it) with Emerald City, a grisly take on the world of Oz that ran for one season. There were witches killing each other, the cowardly lion slaughtered the royal family of Oz, a drug-addicted witch ran a brothel…it was out there.

Now, Legendary Entertainment has decided to boldly go where many have gone before and present its own dark and edgy take on this material. Per Variety, the new show will feature characters that have yet to be explored in previous films and shows. An exiled witch returns to Oz, sewing fear, division and war in the realm. But there is hope in some servant girl who turns out to be unexpectedly powerful and dangerous.

Okay, but does the serving girl trick the wicked witch into shooting herself in the head?

Ed Ricourt (Now You See Me, Wayward Pines) will write and produce the show. “I’m thrilled to partner with Legendary TV and dj2 to adapt my take on Baum’s rich, complex OZ book series which has influenced me creatively since childhood,” he said.

Okay, fine, just as long as you keep those Wheelers off my television screen.

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