Writer and artist Soo Lee is off to see the wizard with The Wizard of Oz: The Official Film Adaptation Graphic Novel from Dynamite. And before you roll your eyes at the umpteenth adaptation of the classic tale, the twist here — beyond Lee’s (no pun intended) dynamite artwork — is that she’ll be adapting directly from the original screenplay, including moments that weren’t seen on screen in 1939.
“I’m not reinventing the wheel, but I’m adding my interpretation to the history of this legendary story,” said Lee via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “I was allowed more pages to indulge in and take my time on certain scenes, so I took advantage of the comics medium. I wanted to really shine light on Dorothy and her friends’ relationships and emotions.”
Written by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf, thanks to Dynamite’s ongoing partnership with Warner Bros. Discovery Global Consumer Products, Lee was granted access to the screenplay, and flesh that script out into 128 full-color pages — and presumably some black and white pages, as well, though TBD on that.
If you’re not familiar with Lee’s work on classic properties, go check out Dynamite’s superb Disney Villains: Maleficent, a haunting fable that pits the Disney baddie against an increasingly powerful set of enemies. While no release date was provided by the publisher, they did note that it is “hitting in plenty of time in advance of Wicked 2.” Given Wicked for Good is hitting on November 21, I’m gonna take a stab and say this will hit stores in September. But who knows? Not me!
Check out the cover and several interior pages, below.
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