Emerald City, NBC’s dark and gritty reimaging of The Wizard of Oz, has founds its heavy: Vincent D’Onofrio, whom THR reports will play the Wizard in the upcoming ten-episode mini-series. This won’t be your grandfather’s wizard — D’Onofrio’s character is apparently “the enigmatic leader of Emerald City [who] rules through inspiration, fear and a tenuous accord with the grand witches.” Just like in Daredevil! The series’ Dorothy, too, is a far cry from Judy Garland: True Detective’s Adria Arjona will star as a policewoman who is transported to Oz, which, in this telling, is “a mystical land of competing kingdoms, lethal warriors, dark magic and a bloody battle for supremacy” that transforms Dorothy into “a headstrong warrior who holds the fate of kingdoms in her hands.” Get ready to follow the yellow brick road … to Hell.
