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Drew Barrymore has been trying to make a Wizard of Oz movie for nearly 30 YEARS: 'As a director, I would give anything to make that'

Drew Barrymore is opening up about the film she's been trying to make for nearly 30 years - a prequel to the 1939 classic The Wizard of Oz.

'Surrender Dorothy is the script I’ve been trying to get made for, I kid you not, 28 years,' Barrymore said, while promoting her Ring and ASPCA partnership. And now it’s the year 2000 and the Wicked Witch is still alive and well and mean and green and she’s broken out of Oz Jail and she’s on her way to New York to get those damn red slippers once and for all,' Kosberg said to the defunct writing website AbsoluteWrite.com. As Flower Films eyes its 30th anniversary next year, Barrymore insists, 'It’s all the same members, and we’re all very prolifically at work right now, much more than I’ve expected to be.'

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