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Cumming Joins Sci Fi's 'Oz' Remake

Post by: Sal

Alan Cumming is off to see Sci Fi's wizard.

The Tony-winning actor has joined the cast of the cable channel's dark, futuristic remake of L. Frank Baum's fantasy book "The Wizard of Oz," according to The Hollywood Reporter.

In this updated epic tale, a young woman named DG somehow gets snatched up and thrust into the fantastical realm known as The Outer Zone (aka The O..) that's currently oppressed by dark magic.

Along the way, she befriends the half-brained man Glitch, the wolverine-like Raw who seeks courage and the emotionally scarred, heroic Cain, who was once part of the police force known as Tin Men in the O.Z. DG is journeying along the Old Road to seek the Mystic Man, but in the end, has a showdown with the wicked Azkeadellia, who has curiously close ties to DG herself.

Cumming will play Glitch, the miniseries' version of the Scarecrow.

The six-hour miniseries, "Tin Man" (working title), will begin production on its science fiction, psychedelic reimagining of the already bizarre tale in March in Vancouver for a projected December premiere.

Cumming has won a Tony for playing the emcee in the 1998 revival of "Cabaret" and last year starred in Broadway's "The Threepenny Opera." On the big screen, he portrayed Kurt Wagner, aka Nightcrawler, a mutant with the power of teleportation in "X2: X-Men United." His other film credits include "GoldenEye," "Emma," "Romy and Michele's High School Reunion," "Spice World," "Titus," "Josie and the Pussycats" and the "Spy Kids" movies.

He next appears in "Gray Matters" and "Suffering Man's Charity," which he directed, produced and stars in.

Just last Sunday (Jan. 7), he married his boyfriend Grant Shaffer ina civil ceremony outside London.