Oz

Oz would be a 2027 live-action/animated fantasy musical film directed by Rob Marshall, with an screenplay by David Magee and John DeLuca from a story by Magee, while Marshall would produce the film alongside Marc Platt and Christopher DeFaria. Produced by the Warner Animation Group and Marc Platt Productions, the film would be based on the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, and would star Skai Jackson and Anika Noni Rose in live-action roles, while Lupita Nyong'o, Tessa Thompson, Cristela Alonso, Oprah Winfrey, and Susanne Blakeslee would provide their voices for the film. Kris Bowers would compose the score for the film, while the songs for the film would be written by Bowers and Scott Wittman.

Development on a live-action/animated hybrid film based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz would begin in early 2023, with Marshall set to direct and Platt set to produce. Magee would join as a writer in mid-2023, while DeFaria would join as a co-producer in late 2023. DeLuca would join the film as co-writer in early 2024, alongside Jackson and Noni Rose as its live-action stars. Nyong'o, Thompson, and Alonso would join the film in mid-2024, while Blakeslee and Winfrey would join the cast in late 2024.

Filming would begin in February 2025, and would end in June 2025, taking place mostly at Shepperton Studios in Surrey, England, througth some scenes would be filmed in location at Kansas. Animation would begin in July 2025, and would last approximately 2 years due to the film's extensive use of traditionally-animated characters and settings. Marshall would draw inspiration from elements of the original book while working on the film, and would avoid watching the 1939 film adaptation in order to "make a film that stood on its own".

Oz would be released by Warner Bros. Pictures in July 25, 2027, and would become a critical and commercial success, with critics praising the film for its direction, screenplay, performances (particularly Jackson, Nyong'o, Bakeslee, Alonso, and Thompson's), animation, production values, musical numbers, visual effects, and score. The film would earn 998 million dollars at the worldwide box office over a budget of 130 million dollars. Oz would earn three Academy Awards for Best Actress, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song, as well as an Academy Award nomimation for Best Visual Effects.

Cast

 * Skai Jackson as Dorothy Gale, a young girl from Jansas, who ends up in the land of Oz by a tornado, and now tries to return home. Jackson would describe Dorothy's arc as "realizing the meaning of the eord home".
 * Anika Noni Rose as Aunt Em, Dorothy's aunt and legal caretaker.

Voice cast

 * Lupita Nyong'o as The Cowardly Lioness, a lioness who wishes to be brave. Director Rob Marshall would hire Nyong'o for the role because "the tweaks on the characters' arc require a vocal quality that only Nyong'o can bring".
 * Tessa Thompson as The Scarecrow, a scarecrow who eishes to have a brain, as she feels she is stupid without one. Thompson would describe her as "a funny character with low self-steem".
 * Cristela Alonso as The Tin Woman, a good-nature tin woman who wants to have heart to experience love.
 * Susanne Blakeslee as The Wicked Witch of the West, an evil witch who wants Dorothy's silver slippers to amplify her own power and take over Oz. According to producer Marc Platt, Blakeslee would be hired for the role instead of a celebrity because "as Disney's current voice for Maleficent, it is obvious there's no one more able to bring a really 'evil witch' voice to her than MacNeille". According to Blakeslee, the film will "make clear the kind of relationship the witch has with all of her servants".
 * Oprah Winfrey as Glinda the Good Witch, a good-hearted witch who helps Dorothy upon arriving to Oz.
 * Danny DeVito as The Mayor of Munchkinland, the leader of the munchkins at Munchkinland, who greets Dorothy when she arrives there.
 * Bill Hader as the Winged Monkeys, an army of flying monkeys that the Wicked Witch of the West both employs as her army and constantly abuses.

Music
Kris Bowers would compose the film's score, marking his second collaboration for the Warner Animation Group, after Soace Jam: A New Legacy (2021). Bowers would compose a "more whimsical and old-school" score for the film than most of his work, througth he would avoid listening to the original film's score in order to "create melodies that are totally new". Bowers would compose a "good-hearted and homesick" theme for Dorothy, a "comically genius" theme for The Scarecrow, a "motherly, cowardly, but protective" theme for The Cowardly Lioness, and a "good-hearted and loyal" theme for The Tin Woman. Bowers would also create a "simply magical" theme for Glinda, and an "evil, bombastic, and elegant" theme for The Wicked Witch of the West.

Bowers would also compose the music for the film's songs, with lyrics by Scott Wittman, who previously worked with director Rob Marshall on Mary Poppins Returns (2018).