“I was happy to do it, not only to work with Sam again but also because the character is so iconic.”
Frank Baum‘s Oz books when he was younger. “I met Sam to discuss this film around the Oscars two years ago,” Franco recalls, adding he had read L. PHOTOS: ‘Oz the Great and Powerful’: How Sam Raimi Brought the Legend Back to Lifeįinally, just five months away from the July 2011 start of production, Raimi brought in James Franco (Harry Osborn in Raimi’s Spider-Man films). “He loved it but said, ‘I have a commitment to The Lone Ranger and am going to stick with that commitment.’ “
“As a 12th-hour effort, I dragged in Johnny and showed him everything,” remembers Roth, who had produced Alice. He then moved on to Johnny Depp, Disney’s golden boy thanks to Alice in Wonderland and the Pirates of the Caribbean pictures. Months later, Raimi visited Downey at his Los Angeles home, still attempting to land him, but upon entering the house, Raimi spotted a plant that he had given the actor as a goodwill gesture wilting in a corner. But after an initial meeting between the director and star, things didn’t look good. Producer Joe Roth had been talking to Downey before Raimi even joined the project in summer 2010. First, the famed director behind the Spider-Man and Evil Dead franchises wanted Robert Downey Jr., who had become a superstar thanks to the Sherlock Holmes and Iron Man series.
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