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DrRexMorman t1_j1xwjv4 wrote

Reply to comment by Salarian_American in In Return to Oz (1985) the nightmare fueled sequel to the Wizard of Oz, why do so many of the characters look completely different from the first film? by ilovemychickens

> Disney owned the movie rights to the ones that weren

It didn't.

It paid MGM to use movie-specific stuff.

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Scottland83 t1_j1ymozs wrote

Disney had the rights to The Marvelous Land of Oz and Ozma of Oz, on which the movie was based. They had to make a movie before those books became public domain.

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Salarian_American t1_j1zf00h wrote

Right I was unclear. Disney had optioned the remaining Oz books, the ones that weren't already public domain and the ones that MGM didn't hold the movie rights to.

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