The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 2 (2027)
January 1, 2027Release Date
The Wizard of the Emerald City, Part 2 (2027)
January 1, 2027Release Date
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Release DateJanuary 1, 2027
Original NameВолшебник Изумрудного города. Злая ведьма
StatusPlanned
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The Wizard of the Emerald City (Russian: Волшебник Изумрудного города. Дорога из жёлтого кирпича, lit. 'The Wizard of the Emerald City. The Yellow Brick Road'; titled onscreen as The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part I) is a 2024 Russian live-action fairy tale fantasy film directed by Igor Voloshin, produced by Central Partnership in partnership with Petr Anurov's Kinoslovo company.
The film is a screen adaptation of the 1939 children's novel of the same name by the Soviet writer Alexander Melentyevich Volkov, based on a reworking of L. Frank Baum's 1900 novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. It stars Ekaterina Chervova in her first film role as Ellie Smith, along with her dog Totoshka. The cast was later joined by Yuri Kolokolnikov as the Tin Woodman, Yevgeny Chumak will turn into the Scarecrow, Artur Vakha who voiced the Cowardly Lion, who was completely computer-generated, and Svetlana Khodchenkova has been announced as the evil sorceress Bastinda.
The Wizard of the Emerald City premiered at the Karo 11 October at Arbat Square in Moscow on December 18, 2024, and is scheduled to be theatrically released in Russia on January 1, 2025.
The sequel, The Wizard of the Emerald City. Part II, is scheduled for 2026.