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Zooey Deschanel: Wonderful Wizard
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In this new re-imagined tale, the young heroine DG (Zooey Deschanel) begins her epic journey in Kansas and is plucked from her humdrum life and thrust into The Outer Zone (the O.Z.), a world filled with villains and creatures. Her perilous journey to find her way back home leads her to a wizard known as the Mystic Man (
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In 2007, Deschanel appeared in two children's films, Bridge to Terabithia and the animated film Surf's Up, in which she voiced a penguin named Lani Aliikai. In December 2007, she played DG, the lead in the new Sci Fi Channel miniseries Tin Man, a re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's children's book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
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That doesn't even take into account Zooey Deschanel as Lady Larken, who has an urgent need for a timely marriage to Matthew Morrison's Sir Harry, or Edward Hibbert as the Wizard (and the Nightingale) and Michael Boatman as the helpful Jester. He's the fool in this version, but parents will be the fools if they don't gather the family around for this one.
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Deschanel's credits include Bridge to Terabithia and the upcoming animated Surf's Up. Deschanel will ... play the role of DG in SCI FI's Tin Man, based on L. Frank Baum's The Wonderful Wizard of Oz; it debuts in December.
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