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"Heroes creator Tim Kring is developing a TV sequel to The Wizard of Oz. Dorothy Must Die is based on an upcoming young adult novel by Danielle Paige, to be published April 2014, Deadline reports.  The radical revamp of L Frank Baum&amp;#039;s classic tale casts Dorothy as a tyrannical dictator who rules over Oz with her henchmen, the Scarecrow, the Tin Man and the Cowardly Lion. In a reversal of the original, another young woman from Kansas is soon transported to Oz and finds herself pitted against Dorothy. The project will see Kring re-team with Heroes writers Adam Armus and Nora Kay Foster, who are adapting Paige&amp;#039;s novel for television.  Kring&amp;#039;s most recent project was the Kiefer Sutherland series Touch, which ran for two seasons on Fox. Dorothy Must Die is the fourth project based on The Wizard of Oz in development for US television. NBC is working on a dark revamp titled Emerald City, Syfy is developing an action-packed take named Warriors of Oz and CBS has reimagined Baum&amp;#039;s novel as Dorothy - a modern-day medical drama. &amp;gt; Heroes to be revived by MSN, Xbox? Watch a clip from 1939&amp;#039;s The Wizard of Oz below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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