Back in 2018 it was announced that Warner Bros. had picked up the rights to War Horse author Michael Morpurgo’s Toto: The Dog-Gone Amazing Story of the Wizard of Oz for an animated musical adaptation, and now Deadline brings word that the project has enlisted a new screenwriter.As revealed by the site, John August – whose […]
The Wizard of Oz’s Toto to get his own animated Oz feature
Warner Bros. has snapped up the film rights to War Horse author Michael Morpurgo’s Toto, a retelling of L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz from the perspective of Dorothy’s faithful canine companion.The studio has tapped Mark Burton (Shaun the Sheep, Early Man, Gnomeo & Juliet) to pen the script for an animated adaptation […]
