{"id":13943,"date":"2011-05-03T21:35:56","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T02:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=13943"},"modified":"2011-05-03T21:35:56","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T02:35:56","slug":"rachel-weisz-will-be-oz-the-great-and-powerfuls-wicked-witch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/03\/rachel-weisz-will-be-oz-the-great-and-powerfuls-wicked-witch\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Weisz Will Be OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL&#8217;s Wicked Witch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RachelWeisz.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13944\" title=\"RachelWeisz\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/RachelWeisz.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"280\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The quest to cast Evanora,the Wicked Witch in Sam Raimi&#8217;s <strong>Oz: The Great And Powerful <\/strong>has ended with the unexpected casting of Rachel Weisz. Unexpected, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/04\/24\/raimi-and-disney-at-odds-over-which-witch-for-oz\/\" target=\"_blank\">when we last heard anything<\/a> about the role was that Raimi and studio Disney could not agree on an actress for the role. Raimi wanted Hillary Swank, whom he worked with on his film <strong>The Gift<\/strong>, while the studio wanted Michelle Williams.<\/p>\n<p>The actress is currently in final negotiations to join the film.<\/p>\n<p>Weisz will be squaring off against James Franco playing a carnival barker who is swept to the land of OZ in a hot air balloon and cons the locals into thinking he is a powerful wizard. Mila Kunis has already joined the cast as Theadora, Evanora&#8217;s younger sister.<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/05\/rachel-weisz-in-talks-for-disneys-oz-the-great-and-powersul\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Beating out Hillary Swank and Michelle Williams for the part.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/03\/rachel-weisz-will-be-oz-the-great-and-powerfuls-wicked-witch\/\" title=\"Rachel Weisz Will Be OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL&#8217;s Wicked Witch\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[2800,2853,3703,467],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"tag-james-franco","8":"tag-oz-the-great-and-powerful","9":"tag-racel-weisz","10":"tag-sam-raimi"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13943"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=13943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}