Full Oz The Great & Powerful Triptych Poster Arrives – It’s certainly a fantastical world

There’s been a lot of grumbling and criticism of the Oz The Great And Powerful posters that have been released over the last couple of weeks. The first (the first third of the pic above) was said to be dumb because it didn’t include enough of the main characters. The second (the far right portion), was said the be too busy and like someone who’d just learn Photoshop had just had an orgasm.

However what the naysayers didn’t seem to be paying attention to, was that right from the beginning Disney said this was part of a triptych, so you couldn’t properly criticise it until we got the whole thing. Now we have just that, with the image above filling in the middle section, which gives us the main characters and better composition the moaners didn’t like – plus the Yellow Brick Road and Emerald City.

It’s a pretty packed image, keen to suggest that Sam Raimi’s film will be a visual feast. We’ll be able to get a better picture of whether the movie will live up to its fantastical promise tomorrow, as we’ve been promised a new trailer then. Until then, click on the pic above to see a larger version of the triptych poster.

Here’s the synopsis: Disney’s fantastical adventure “Oz The Great and Powerful,” directed by Sam Raimi, imagines the origins of L. Frank Baum’s beloved character, the Wizard of Oz. When Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz, he thinks he’s hit the jackpot—fame and fortune are his for the taking—that is until he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz) and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity—and even a bit of wizardry—Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well.

It hits cinemas March 2013.