"Oz" Author Getting Biopic

New Line Cinema has acquired Josh Golden's spec script "Road to Oz" which chronicles the early days of "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"author L. Frank Baum reports THR

Baum was a prolific writer who wrote that famed book and its thirteen sequels. He also wrote over two dozen other books.

Golden's script has been nominated for the Nicholl Fellowship award The winner will be announced next month.

The plan is to lock down a director ASAP.

Nellie Bellflower, who produced the Peter Pan author J. M. Barrie biopic "Finding Neverland," Michael Mislove and Beau Flynn will produce the project.