{"id":14227,"date":"2011-05-27T06:27:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=14227"},"modified":"2011-05-27T06:27:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-27T11:27:40","slug":"zach-braff-in-talks-for-oz-the-great-and-powerful-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/27\/zach-braff-in-talks-for-oz-the-great-and-powerful-role\/","title":{"rendered":"Zach Braff In Talks For OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Role"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ZachBraff.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-14228\" title=\"ZachBraff\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/ZachBraff-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Zach Braff is in talks to appear in <strong>Sam Raimi&#8217;s Oz: The Great And Powerful<\/strong>. According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.deadline.com\/2011\/05\/zach-braff-joining-oz-the-great-and-powerful\/\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a>, he&#8217;ll be playing Frank, &#8220;the loyal but under-appreciated assistant to Oz (James Franco), a  charismatic circus magician who is treated as a powerful wizard after  his balloon blows off course into Oz and the townsfolk want him to  eradicate a Wicked Witch and bring peace.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Best known for his work on the comedy series <em>Scrubs<\/em>, Braff&#8217;s filmography has been mostly in the indie world, most famously writing, directing and starring in 2004&#8217;s <strong>Garden State<\/strong>. To be honest, I&#8217;m not much of a Braff fan. <em>Scrubs<\/em> never struck me as all that funny and I didn&#8217;t flip for <strong>Garden State<\/strong> as much as others. Hopefully, Raimi and company have seen something in him for the role that will be worthwhile.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The GARDEN STATE star will assist the Great and Powerful Wizard.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/05\/27\/zach-braff-in-talks-for-oz-the-great-and-powerful-role\/\" title=\"Zach Braff In Talks For OZ: THE GREAT AND POWERFUL Role\">[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":[2800,2853,467,3764],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14227","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-sam-raimi","10":"tag-zach-braff"},"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\/14227","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=14227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14227"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=14227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}