Drew Barrymore is going to direct a sequel to The Wizard of Oz in a movie called Surrender Dorothy according to Pajiba.com. Now, I’m going to have to turn to more seasoned websites to help me on this one since this has been on the boil for nearly 10 years, well before HeyUGuys started!

After cutting her directorial teeth on Whip It last year (or this in the UK), which turned out to be a great movie, Pajiba.com are reporting oi that Barrymore who was originally going to star in the movie when it as first announced back in 2002, is now going to direct.

SlashFilm point us towards an article in Entertinament Weekly from way back in 2002 (see why i need help!) which gives us some more info on the project. Bear in mind it seems like things have moved on a fair bit now so it’s probably not 100% accurate:

In ”Surrender Dorothy,” Barrymore would play an updated version of the heroine of the L. Frank Baum novels and the 1939 movie. Kosberg described the premise a couple years ago to writers’-clearinghouse website AbsoluteWrite.com. While Dorothy appeared to have dispatched the Wicked Witch by melting her with a bucket of water, Kosberg said, ”What if the Witch didn’t die? What if it was all an act? 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.”