Watchmen director Nicole Kassell has been hired to helm a Wizard of Oz remake.Kassell will be adapting L. Frank Baum’s children’s novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, rather than directly remaking Victor Fleming’s 1939 film.Deadline reports that New Line chose Kassell for her “striking visual tone” and “ability to adapt challenging material,” and called the filmmaker “a meticulous world-builder” during her time working on Watchmen.Kassell won a DGA Award for her work on Watchmen, which she directed three out of nine episodes for.
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