{"id":15499,"date":"2011-08-04T19:48:51","date_gmt":"2011-08-05T00:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=15499"},"modified":"2018-12-08T14:45:49","modified_gmt":"2018-12-08T19:45:49","slug":"bruce-campbell-will-have-pivitol-role-in-oz-the-great-and-powerful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/04\/bruce-campbell-will-have-pivitol-role-in-oz-the-great-and-powerful\/","title":{"rendered":"Bruce Campbell Will Have &#8220;Pivotal&#8221; Role In OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BruceCampbellHeader.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15508\" title=\"BruceCampbellHeader\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BruceCampbellHeader.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BruceCampbellHeader.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/BruceCampbellHeader-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>Sam Raimi has cast his long time friend, frequent star and sometimes whipping boy Bruce Campbell in his currently in production <em>Wizard Of Oz<\/em> prequel <strong>Oz, The Great And Powerful<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Fan favorite Campbell announced the news on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/GroovyBruce\/status\/99224622716813313\" target=\"_blank\">twitter<\/a> a short while ago &#8211;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CampbellOzTweets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15503\" title=\"CampbellOzTweets\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CampbellOzTweets.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CampbellOzTweets.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/CampbellOzTweets-300x98.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of course, if you&#8217;ve ever seen Campbell at a convention discuss cameos in Raimi&#8217;s Spider-Man trilogy and point out how he is the only person to have defeated the superhero in those movies, you probably know to take his claim that the role will be &#8220;PIVITOL&#8221; with a grain of salt.<\/p>\n<p>Since the pair broke into the film industry together with the cult favorite <strong>Evil Dead<\/strong>, Campbell has often appeared in Raimi&#8217;s films, either as a lead actor, supporting player or sometimes in just a small cameo role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">Of course the question remains &#8220;How pivotal?&#8221;<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2011\/08\/04\/bruce-campbell-will-have-pivitol-role-in-oz-the-great-and-powerful\/\" title=\"Bruce Campbell Will Have &#8220;Pivotal&#8221; Role In OZ, THE GREAT AND POWERFUL\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15503,"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":[369,2853,467],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15499","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-bruce-campbell","9":"tag-oz-the-great-and-powerful","10":"tag-sam-raimi"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[2],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499","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=15499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15499"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=15499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}