The LA Times reports that "Hairspray" and "Bedtime Stories" director Adam Shankman has passed on doing Bob: The Musical, to which he's been attached to for over a year, in the hopes of doing the "The Wizard of Oz" prequel Oz: The Great and Powerful.
Shankman's compettion "American Beauty" and "Revolutionary Road" director Sam Mendes who has previously been linked to this origin tale and has RDJ hovering to star as the Wizard before he came to the land of Oz.
Mendes was set to direct Bond 23 later this year, but with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's financial woes putting that project on indefinite hold his chances of doing the Oz gig look much better
Both are very different directors who'll no doubt have quite different styles on what's being described as a 3-D "broad adventure story". Shankman's earlier work has skewed generally quite young, but has recently made comment that he wants to do projects with a more adult sensibility.
Shankman's departure from "Bob" also puts that project's future uncertain
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