Legendary Hollywood gems like the &#8220;Wizard Of Oz&#8221; and the Christmas classic &#8220;It&#8217;s A Wonderful Life&#8221; are both getting what director and writer Kenya Barris is calling a &#8220;diverse&#8221; reboot.
Speaking to <a href="https://variety.com/2024/film/news/kenya-barris-richard-pryor-biopic-television-series-1235879679/">Variety</a> at the Sundance Film Festival, Barris confirmed he&#8217;s working on scripts for both films and giving the Judy Garland 1939 movie a new look with a story told from a &#8220;different point of a view.&#8221;
&#8220;The original &#8216;Wizard of Oz&#8217; took place during the Great Depression and it was about self-reliance and what people were going through,&#8221; Barris told the outlet.
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&#8220;I think this is the perfect time to switch the characters and talk about what someone imagines their life could be,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It&#8217;s ultimately a hero&#8217;s journey, someone thinks something&#8217;s better than where they&#8217;re at, and they go and realize that where they&#8217;re at is where they should be.&#8221;
&#8220;I want people to be proud and happy about where they&#8217;re from,&#8221; Barris continued. &#8220;But I want the world to take a look at it and I hope that will come through.&#8221;
The &#8220;Black-ish&#8221; creator also talked about his remake of the 1946 Frank Capra classic starring Jimmy Stewart and said he plans to tell the story but with a &#8220;person of color&#8221; instead.
&#8220;I feel like Christmas movies are amazing and I think the idea of taking something that has that long of a history and a tale behind it and putting an amazing piece of talent to tell that story,&#8221; Barris said. 
&#8220;It&#8217;s a guy who’s trying to help out his community and things are going to turn around on him,&#8221; he added. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s the perfect story to tell for a person of color — Black or brown — to get into that because our communities have some issues and someone trying to help that community out. I think that&#8217;s the perfect vehicle to tell that story from.&#8221;
During his appearance last year on &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vpq9Ls8jSM8">The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon</a>,&#8221; Barris spoke a bit about one of the upcoming projects he was working on with &#8220;diverse&#8221; characters that was a twist on the &#8220;Wizard of Oz&#8221; story.
&#8220;I think that this is the best time to turn a mirror on society because we need to see ourselves, and I want to do it with diverse characters,&#8221; Barris said. 
<a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/kenya-barris-oz-wonderfullife-reboots?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=dlvr.it_x_blazetv&amp;tpcc=social">Barris</a> told Fallon his version of Dorothy is a girl who &#8220;lives in Inglewood, and someone comes up and she ends up in Underhood, which is right outside of Oz, and it takes place from there.&#8221;
&#8220;I wanted to make people think, but also make them feel good, and also make people feel seen who hadn&#8217;t felt seen,&#8221; he added.
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