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Utter solitude wrote:

Anubis16 wrote:

I heard Walt Disney wanted to make an animated movie out of The Wizard of Oz, but the rights were already sold to MGM Yep, this is true. They actually held the film rights to the other dozen books and tried to make a couple movies (one was never finished, the other did poorly) and lost the film rights soon after. :3 It's all public domain now, tho.

I think it might have been a great cartoon, but I don't know how well it would have translated after Disney child-ified it XD But didn't MGM sort of childify it