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On top of medical drama Dorothy, dark reimagining Emerald City, and the fantasy miniseries Warriors of Oz comes Dorothy Must Die!, yet another project based on L. Frank Baum’s classic tale The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.

This time it’s Heroes and Touch creator Tim Kring who’s behind Dorothy Must Die! based on the forthcoming Young Adult novel by Danielle Paige. According to the report at Deadline, “It is a revisionist take on the classic tale set in present day, 80 years after Dorothy Gale supposedly came home. In reality, the magically-ever-youthful Dorothy has stayed in Oz, presiding over a now fascist fairyland with her perfectly manicured iron fist and the help of her henchmen – the Scarecrow, the Tin Man, and the Cowardly Lion.

“But when another young woman from Kansas is swept up in a tornado and magically dropped into this war-torn Oz, our hero discovers a revolutionary underground of witches and enchanted beings only to learn that she is destined to lead their people in the fight to reclaim Oz from a power-hungry Dorothy’s ruthless clutches.”

The CW are in negotiations to buy the project from Kring and executive producers Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster, who have adapted the script. The novel is published by HarperTeen next April, with a prequel No Place Like Oz already out.