It looks like Self/less director Tarsem Singh has lined-up his next project, with news from Deadline that the filmmaker is set to direct the entire series of Emerald City for NBC.
Emerald City is a long-gestating television series based on the classic story of The Wizard of Oz that has now been taken over for redevelpment by writer and executive producer David Schulner (Desperate Housewives). The show is set to tell the story of Dorothy Gale and her K9 police-dog who “are transported via tornado to another world, one far removed from our own — a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy”.
Aria Arjona (True Detective) will play Dorothy, and today comes news that Oliver Jackson-Cohen (Mr. Selfridge) and Ana Ularu (Serena) have joined the cast in the show, which is described as a “modern and dark reimagining of the classic tale of Oz in the vein of Game of Thrones.”
