Tin Man (2007– )

A re-imagining of L. Frank Baum's classic "The Wizard of Oz".

Stars:

Zooey Deschanel, Alan Cumming, Neal McDonough

Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 9 wins & 17 nominations.

Cast

Series cast summary:
Zooey Deschanel	...	DG (3 episodes, 2007)
Alan Cumming	...	Glitch (3 episodes, 2007)
Neal McDonough	...	Wyatt Cain (3 episodes, 2007)
Kathleen Robertson	...	Azkadellia (3 episodes, 2007)
Raoul Trujillo	...	Raw (3 episodes, 2007)
Callum Keith Rennie	...	Zero (3 episodes, 2007)
Richard Dreyfuss	...	Mystic Man (3 episodes, 2007)
Blu Mankuma	...	Toto (3 episodes, 2007)
Anna Galvin	...	Lavender eyes (3 episodes, 2007)
Ted Whittall	...	Ahamo (3 episodes, 2007)
Ian A. Wallace	...	Raynz (3 episodes, 2007)
Donny James Lucas	...	Vy-Sor (3 episodes, 2007)
Gwynyth Walsh	...	Emily (3 episodes, 2007)
Kevin McNulty	...	Hank (3 episodes, 2007)
Rachel Pattee	...	Young DG (3 episodes, 2007)
Alexia Fast	...	Young Azkadellia (3 episodes, 2007)
Jason Schombing	...	Demilo (3 episodes, 2007)
Doug Abrahams	...	General Lonot (3 episodes, 2007)
Shawn Macdonald	...	Lylo (3 episodes, 2007)
R. Nelson Brown	...	Father Vue (3 episodes, 2007)
Cainan Wiebe	...	Kalm (3 episodes, 2007)
James Ashcroft	...	Joe Bill (3 episodes, 2007)
Carmen Aguirre	...	Café Waitress (3 episodes, 2007)
Sean Campbell	...	Carter (3 episodes, 2007)
Nickolas Baric	...	State Trooper (3 episodes, 2007)
Ingrid Tesch	...	Adora (3 episodes, 2007)
Karin Konoval	...	The Wicked Witch (3 episodes, 2007)
Colin Heath	...	Blue Katt (3 episodes, 2007)
Richard Howland	...	Red Katt (3 episodes, 2007)
Alison Araya	...	Twister Waitress (3 episodes, 2007)
Leah Gibson	...	Twister Dancer (3 episodes, 2007)
Tara Wilson	...	Twister Dancer (3 episodes, 2007)
Lucia Walters	...	Adreanna (3 episodes, 2007)
Tinsel Korey	...	Airofday (3 episodes, 2007)
Garvin Cross	...	Stage Manager (3 episodes, 2007)
Andrew Francis	...	Jeb (3 episodes, 2007)
Connor Dunn	...	Jeb as Boy (3 episodes, 2007)
Craig Veroni	...	Resistance Fighter (3 episodes, 2007)
Michael Roselli	...	Longcoat Guard (3 episodes, 2007)
Michasha Armstrong	...	Longcoat at Realm (3 episodes, 2007)
Dan Payne	...	Longcoat Leader (3 episodes, 2007)
Andrew Wheeler	...	Ralph Bedose (3 episodes, 2007)
Marilyn Norry	...	Lorraine Bedose (3 episodes, 2007)
Brenna O'Brien	...	Ella Bedose (3 episodes, 2007)
Jake D. Smith	...	Wills Bedose (3 episodes, 2007)
Grace Wheeler	...	Dorothy Gale (3 episodes, 2007)
Madison Bell	...	Young Girl in Cave (3 episodes, 2007)
Baxter	...	Toto (3 episodes, 2007)

Storyline

Set in the spirit of L. Frank Baum's classic, the "Tin Man" follows the adventures of DG, a waitress and part-time student, as she travels through the mystical world of "The O. Z. (Outer Zone)", discovering her hidden past. This well-known story takes a twist in this SyFy adaptation as DG battles the sorceress Azkadellia along with the help of four friends; Glitch, a former adviser to the Queen whose brain has been removed; Raw, a psychic empath; and Wyatt Cain, a former police man (aka Tin-man) who has been imprisoned in an iron suit, forced to watch his family's destruction time and time again. Although parallels can be made to the original book this story takes its own path down the yellow brick road.

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Plot Keywords:

waitress | sorceress | psychic | tin man | tin badge | 

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Taglines:

Follow a new yellow brick road.

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Genres:

Adventure | Fantasy | Sci-Fi | Western

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Details

Official Sites:

Sci Fi

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

2 December 2007 (USA)

Also Known As:

A Bádogember

Filming Locations:

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Box Office

Budget:

$19,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Imagiquest Entertainment, RHI Entertainment, Reunion Pictures

Technical Specs

Runtime:

270 min 270 min (3 parts)

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Trivia

The main character is named D.G. This stands for Dorothy Gale, the original name of Dorothy in the L. Frank Baum books.

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Goofs

When DG is in the hut with Ahamo and is examining the compass, she is holding it in her left hand. In the long shot that immediately follows, she is holding it with both hands.

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Quotes

Glitch: [walking over to a piece of furniture] There is something so *familiar* about this...
[takes the sheet off the harp]
Glitch: No.

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Crazy Credits

This may only apply to the extended credits on the DVD release: the character name Dorothy Gale is misspelled "Dorthy".

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Connections

Featured in The 60th Primetime Emmy Awards (2008)

User Reviews

Refreshing!

I've only seen the first two-thirds of this, so this is in a sense an incomplete review--but what fun this is! Over the years, I've found myself growing less and less fond of the 1939 "Wizard of Oz". Perhaps it was the "20/20" interview with Yip Harburg a number of years ago in which he presented himself as the greatest thing in the history of music and "Somewhere Over the Rainbow" as the greatest song every written. Perhaps it's the relentlessly perky, folksy tone. Perhaps it just that I'm sick to death of Judy Garland--great voice, a complete wreck as a human being, same damned performance in every film she ever made. (Yeah, I know that someone will try to pull my gay card for that remark.) In any case--an O.Z. with a steampunk castle for the wicked sorceress, who by the way dresses like a dominatrix and has her winged monkey equivalents tattooed on her bust? A consistently dark tone, more Brothers Grimm than Louis B. Mayer? As other have noted, lots of clever parallels to other films as well as the original? I can't claim greatness for "Tin Man", but taken on its own terms it's a heck of a lot of knowing fun--without a single note of "Somewhere over the Rainbow". If your teeth hurt at the very thought of "The Wizard of Oz"--and whose don't?--you are going to like this.