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The Wiz was a FLOP.

Didn't even make its production budget back in sales.

AND it starred Michael Jackson and Diana Ross, perhaps teh two biggest stars of that era.

And how many versions of It's a Wonderful Life have there been over the years? I lost count..............

1 posted on 01/24/2024 9:39:28 AM PST by Red Badger
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In the new version of Wonderful Life, the little girl will say, “Every time a white man’s killed, an angle gets her wings.”


2 posted on 01/24/2024 9:41:05 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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It’s about making it…” Less white”.

Nothing more


3 posted on 01/24/2024 9:41:27 AM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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We have State dictated mandatory negrophilia in all entertainment and media outlets.


4 posted on 01/24/2024 9:42:16 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Can we get a diverse reboot of ‘The Color Purple’?


5 posted on 01/24/2024 9:42:21 AM PST by House Atreides (I’m now ULTRA-MAGA. -PRO-MA)
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6 posted on 01/24/2024 9:43:01 AM PST by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Don’t worry, the Wicked Witch will still be white.


7 posted on 01/24/2024 9:43:42 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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“Someone comes up and she ends up in Underworld “

Huh?


8 posted on 01/24/2024 9:43:57 AM PST by TornadoAlley3 ( I'm Proud To Be An Okie From Muskogee)
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They REALLY don’t learn, do they?


10 posted on 01/24/2024 9:44:37 AM PST by moovova ("The NEXT election is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Vote with your pocketbook.


12 posted on 01/24/2024 9:45:04 AM PST by GSWarrior
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I want to see “It’s a Crappy Life” with Clarence the angel showing Biden what the world would be without him (low inflation, low crime, peace in Ukraine and the Middle East and a secure border) and then shoving him off the bridge.


13 posted on 01/24/2024 9:45:13 AM PST by KarlInOhio (Democrats' version of MAGA: Making America the Gulag Archipelago. Now with "Formal Deprogramming")
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They already made a reboot of Wizard of Oz !!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRQkF00DsaY


17 posted on 01/24/2024 9:46:48 AM PST by Cowgirl of Justice
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19 posted on 01/24/2024 9:47:56 AM PST by bigbob
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The reboots will be It’s a fo shizzle life yo, and The Wiz is a bad mofo.


21 posted on 01/24/2024 9:48:37 AM PST by Enterprise
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To be gentle:
These are unnecessary, and unwanted remakes.

We (many of us anyway) like our old-fashioned illusions. Movies are often pleasent escape media entertainmet. Forcing movies to carry heavy propaganda messages makes them unpalatable. That’s why remakes so often miserably fail.

It ain’t hard to grok...


24 posted on 01/24/2024 9:50:22 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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The message I’m getting from this is that black people are not creative enough to come up with their own stories and so they have to appropriate the culture from other, better people. Is that the message they want to send?


25 posted on 01/24/2024 9:50:34 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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Remaking movies that are not screaming for a remake is usually a bad idea. Making them racial, makes the decision even worse. Because when they fail at the box office, the racial aspect is blamed. In reality, who hasn’t seen “It’s a wonderful life” 100 times? Who is going to drop $20 to go see it again?


27 posted on 01/24/2024 9:52:14 AM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.)
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A woke remake of Its A Wonderful Life.
Figures ,
Libs want to tear down and pervert anything decent


34 posted on 01/24/2024 9:59:47 AM PST by HereInTheHeartland (Have you seen Joe Biden's picture on a milk carton?)
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Sometimes I think the only reason they make these movies is to have excuse to cry “racism” when the movie flops at the box office.


35 posted on 01/24/2024 10:00:31 AM PST by GSWarrior
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“The Wiz was a FLOP.”

And that was when Good Times and Sanford and Son were on the air.


36 posted on 01/24/2024 10:03:13 AM PST by Luke21
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“The Wizard of Oz” movie was based on a novel by L. Frank Baum, published in 1900, so it had nothing to do with the Great Depression. Baum died 10 years before the stock market crash of 1929.


37 posted on 01/24/2024 10:06:56 AM PST by Verginius Rufus
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