10 Unmade Tim Burton Films That Would Have Been Awesome
6. Lost In Oz
Nowadays more and more directors are flocking to television due to the prestige now associated with the medium (e.g. M Night Shyamalan with Wayward Pines and Guillermo Del Toro with The Strain) but it looks like Tim Burton could have beaten them to the punch when he attempted to create this TV series in 2000.
Loosely inspired by L Frank Baum's beloved children's novels, Lost In Oz would have seen, according to IMDB, "a group of contemporary young people... swept to the Land of Oz - only Ozma and the Wizard are missing, and no one knows why."
Sadly only an unaired pilot was made, with Burton being credited as Story Creator and Executive Producer. While his take on Alice In Wonderland isn't exactly universally loved, a series based on the similarly quirky, potentially dark, world of Oz and guided by Burton's vision could have been amazing.