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Wizard, the wizard, or wizards may refer to:
- Wizard (paranormal), a practitioner of magic
Arts, entertainment and media[edit]
Fictional characters[edit]
- Wizard (Archie Comics), a comic book superhero
- Wizard (character class), magic-wielding character types in many role-playing games
- Wizard (DC Comics), a comic book villain
- Wizard (Dungeons & Dragons), the Dungeons & Dragons character class
- Wizard (fantasy), a fictional character practitioner of magic
- Wizard (Marvel Comics), a comic book villain
- Wizard (Middle-earth), powerful beings in the writings of J. R. R. Tolkien
- 'The Wizard', the villain of the serial Batman and Robin
- 'The Wizard', the nickname of Mario Garcez Brito, Brazil's corrupt Minister of Justice and a member of the 'Club 13' cartel, in O Mecanismo
- Wizard of Oz (character), in L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and its movie adaptations
- Wizards (Discworld), major characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld series
Film[edit]
- The Wizard (1927 film), a 1927 American silent horror film
- The Wizard (1989 film), a 1989 American film about a skilled video gamer
- Wizards (film), a 1977 animated post-apocalyptic fantasy/science fiction film by Ralph Bakshi
Gaming[edit]
- Wizard (1983 video game), a 1983 Commodore 64 game that was later re-released in 1986 as Ultimate Wizard
- Wizard (2005 video game), a game designed by Chris Crawford for the Atari 2600 and released in 2005
- Wizard (board game), a 1978 board game released by Metagaming
- Wizard (card game), a trick-taking card game
- Wizard (MUD), a developer or administrator in a MUD
- Wizards (board game), a board game produced in 1982 by Avalon Hill
- Wizards of the Coast or Wizards, a Seattle-based games publisher
Literature[edit]
- Wizard (novel), a 1980 science fiction novel by John Varley
- The Wizard (novel), an 1896 Adventure novel by Henry Rider Haggard
- The Wizard, a novel by Gene Wolfe in the series The Wizard Knight
- Wizards (anthology), an anthology of fantasy short fiction edited by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
Music[edit]
Groups[edit]
- Wizard (American band), a short-lived American psychedelic/hard rock band
- Wizard (band), a German power metal/speed metal band
- WZRD (band), alternative rock duo formerly known as Wizard
Albums[edit]
- Wizard (EP), an EP by Beto Vázquez Infinity
- The Wizard (album), the second album by American blues guitarist Mel Brown
- WZRD (album), the eponymous debut album by American alternative rock duo WZRD
- The Wizrd, the seventh studio album by American rapper Future
Songs[edit]
- 'The Wizard' (Black Sabbath song), 1970
- 'The Wizard' (Paul Hardcastle song), 1986
- 'The Wizard' (Uriah Heep song), 1972
- 'Wizard' (Martin Garrix and Jay Hardway song), 2013
- 'The Wizard', a song by Bat for Lashes from Fur and Gold
- 'The Wizard', a song by Albert Ayler from Spiritual Unity
- 'The Wizard', a single by Marc Bolan
- 'The Wizard', a song by Paul Espinoza of Golden Bough
- 'The Wizard', a song by Al Di Meola from Land of the Midnight Sun
Other uses in music[edit]
- Wizard, an Australian record label created by Robie Porter
- Wizard rock, a genre of rock music that developed between 2002 and 2004
- Wizard by Pearson, a global language schools network founded by Carlos Wizard Martins
Television[edit]
- The Wizard (TV series), a short-lived 1980s CBS television series
- 'The Wizard' (Seinfeld), the 171st episode of the NBC sitcom Seinfeld
- 'The Wizard', an episode of She-Ra: Princess of Power
- Wizards: Tales of Arcadia, a 2020 TV series
Other uses in arts, entertainment and media[edit]
- Wizard (magazine), a magazine about comic books
- Wizard (DC Thomson), a British comic that featured Wilson of the Wizard and was merged to Rover
People[edit]
- The Wizard (nickname), shared by several notable people
- Wizard of New Zealand, an educator, comedian and politician
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Science and technology[edit]
- HTC Wizard, a QWERTY-keyboard pocket PC
- Sharp Wizard, a personal organizer released in 1988
- Wizard (software), a computer user interface that leads a user through dialog steps
- Wizard butterfly, the brush-footed or Bardic wizard butterfly Rhinopalpa polynice
- Wizard Nebula, an open cluster located in Cepheus constellation
Sports[edit]
- Wizard (horse) (1806–1813), Thoroughbred racehorse
- Canterbury cricket team, known as the Wizards
- Dakota Wizards, a team in the NBA Development League
- Fort Wayne Wizards, a team in the Midwest League of professional baseball
- Kansas City Wizards, the former name of Sporting Kansas City, a Major League Soccer team
- Washington Wizards, a National Basketball Association (NBA) team
Transport[edit]
- Wizard, a GWR Iron Duke Class steam locomotive
- FV Wizard, a crab fishing boat in the TV show Deadliest Catch
- Hillman Wizard, an American six-cylinder car
- HMS Wizard, a list of ships bearing the name
- Isuzu Wizard, a Japanese mid-size SUV
- Laron Wizard, an American homebuilt aircraft design
Other uses[edit]
- Comp wizard, also known as a Comp hustler, is a gambler who maximizes complementary perqs from casinos
- Grand Wizard or Imperial Wizard, a leader of the Ku Klux Klan
- Wizard Video, a defunct home video company
See also[edit]
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- The Wizzard, Dominican calypso singer
- Wizzard, a 1970s British glam rock band
- The Wizrd, an album by Future
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The Wizard | |
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Directed by | Todd Holland |
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Written by | David Chisholm |
Starring | |
Music by | J. Peter Robinson |
Cinematography | Robert D. Yeoman |
Edited by | Tom Finan |
Production companies |
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Distributed by | Universal Pictures (North America) Carolco Pictures (International) Toho (Japan) |
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100 minutes | |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
Budget | $6 million[1] |
Box office | $14.3 million[2] |
The Wizard is a 1989 American family film directed by Todd Holland, written by David Chisholm, and starring Fred Savage, Christian Slater, Jenny Lewis, Beau Bridges, and Luke Edwards. It was also Tobey Maguire's film debut.[3]
The film follows three children as they travel to California. The youngest of the three is emotionally withdrawn with a gift for playing video games. The Wizard is known for its extensive product placement of Nintendo material. The film was also well known for being the official introduction to Super Mario Bros. 3 in North America.[4] Despite receiving consistently negative reviews, the film has garnered a cult following.[5][6]
Plot[edit]
Jimmy Woods is a young boy suffering from PTSD after his twin sister, Jennifer, drowned two years earlier. He perpetually carries around a lunchbox and mostly only ever says 'California.' Jennifer's death resulted in a split of Jimmy's family: he lives with his mother, Christine, and stepfather, Mr. Bateman, while his older half-brothers, Nick and Corey, live with their father, Sam. Exasperated by Jimmy's behavior, Christine and Mr. Bateman decide to commit Jimmy to an institution. Intolerant of this development, Corey sneaks Jimmy out, and they start traveling on foot for Los Angeles. Nick and Sam head out to bring the boys back, in competition with Mr. Putnam, a greedy bounty hunter hired by Mr. Bateman and Christine to find Jimmy.
At a bus station, Jimmy and Corey meet Haley Brooks, a teenager on her way home to Reno. When they discover that Jimmy has an innate skill for playing video games, Haley informs Corey of 'Video Armageddon', a gaming tournament being held in Universal Studios Hollywood, with a grand prize of $50,000. Corey sees the tournament as an opportunity to avert Jimmy's institutionalization by showcasing his talent, and Haley agrees to help take Jimmy to the tournament in return for a share of the winnings. The trio hitchhike cross-country, using Jimmy’s skills to win bets on games. They eventually meet Lucas Barton, a popular but snobbish gamer who demonstrates his ability to play Rad Racer with a Power Glove and informs Haley he will also be competing. Corey and Haley learn that Jimmy's lunchbox contains photos and mementos of Jennifer. Name mangler 3 6 walkthrough.
The trio arrive in Reno, gaining more money with help from Haley’s trucker friend, Spankey, by having Haley coach Spankey at a casino’s craps table. Jimmy then begins training on arcade machines with help from the Nintendo Power Line. The children escape from Putnam to Haley's trailer, where she reveals she wants her share of the prize money to help her father buy a proper house. Putnam finds Haley's trailer and captures Jimmy, but Haley summons several truckers who barricade Putnam on the road, beat him, and rescue Jimmy. After Spankey gets the children to the tournament, Jimmy enters and becomes a finalist after playing Ninja Gaiden. In between rounds, Putnam makes another unsuccessful attempt to apprehend the children. Jimmy, Lucas, and a third finalist play Super Mario Bros. 3, a brand-new game not yet released in the United States. Cheered on by his family, Haley, and even Putnam, Jimmy wins the tournament at the last second and earns the prize money.
On the way home with both sides of his family, accompanied by Haley, Jimmy spots the Cabazon Dinosaurs and gets them to stop the car. They follow him inside, and Corey finds Jimmy looking at his photos of the family, one of which was taken at the tourist trap. They realize Jimmy seeks closure in leaving the lunchbox in a place where Jennifer was happy. Jimmy leaves his lunchbox at the site and the group resumes the car trip, happily riding off into the sunset.
Cast[edit]
- Fred Savage as Corey Woods
- Luke Edwards as Jimmy Woods
- Jenny Lewis as Haley Brooks
- Christian Slater as Nick Woods
- Beau Bridges as Sam Woods
- Will Seltzer as Putnam
- Jackey Vinson as Lucas Barton
- Wendy Phillips as Christine Bateman
- Sam McMurray as Mr. Bateman
- Frank McRae as Spankey
- Vincent Leahr as Tate
- Beth Grant as Diner manager
- Lee Arenberg as Armageddon registrar
- Tobey Maguire (uncredited) as Goon
- Dante Basco (deleted scenes) as Corey's friend
Production[edit]
During 1988, a shortage of ROM chips and the preparation of a version of Super Mario Bros. 2 for the west delayed several of Nintendo's game releases in North America. The delayed products included Super Mario Bros. 3 and Zelda II: The Adventure of Link.[7] The delay presented Nintendo with an opportunity to promote the game in a feature film. In 1989, Tom Pollack of Universal Studios approached Nintendo of America's marketing department about a video game film; inspired by Nintendo video game competitions, Pollack envisioned a video game version of Tommy for younger audiences. Nintendo licensed its products for inclusion in the film. During production, the filmmakers were granted approval from Nintendo regarding the script and portrayal of its games.[8]Super Mario Bros. 3 was one of the products shown in the film and was used in a final scene involving a video game competition.[8][9] Despite the film touting itself as featuring the first public reveal of Super Mario Bros. 3, the game had already been released in Japan during the previous year, with U.S. magazines such as Electronic Gaming Monthly and GamePro having already covered the Japanese version.[10][11][12]
Filming took place between June 5 and July 25, 1989.[1] In a 2008 reunion,[13] as well in an interview in 2014,[14] Todd Holland revealed that the original cut of the film was 2.5 hours long and included an extended backstory for Jimmy and Corey.
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The 1965 A64B Autocar severe-duty, Cab Over Engine vocational truck that Spanky drives was previously used in the 1987 Sylvester Stallone film Over the Top. When the truckers box Putnam in on the road after he nabs Jimmy, 'Hawk Hauling,' (the name of Stallone's character Lincoln Hawk's company in Over The Top), can still clearly be seen on the driver's-side door when Spanky opens it to exit the cab around the 57:35 minute mark in the film. Following Over The Top and before it finally made its way into The Wizard, the truck was also used in 1988's Messenger of Death. After filming The Wizard in 1989, it went to sit on a Universalbacklot for years until it was called back into service once again, this time for the Lori Petty film Tank Girl, where it was repainted silver. A few years later it appeared in another science fiction film, again in its silver repaint.[15] In 2010 it was spotted for sale in truck jackknife stuntman George Sack Jr.'s California scrapyard.[16]
When later interviewed for Nintendolife.com in early September 2009, directed Holland admitted that he had some issues with the final script- 'I argued with the studio that we were shooting way too much footage- more than we could ever possibly use [..] I lost the argument and was told flat out by Universal to shoot the entire script'. According to Holland, the original cut of the film was over 2.5 hours long and that nearly an hour of footage needed to be deleted in order to make the film a suitable length for family viewing. The deleted material was finally released in 2020 on the collector's edition blu-ray of the film. Most of the deleted footage comes from the original cut of the opening act which explores Corey's home life in more detail, including deliberately antagonizing his older brother, his mother's emotional issues surrounding Jimmy and her divide from her former family. Nick's alcoholism is also explored in more detail as well as additional clips from the road trip scenes. Trucker Spankey gets more screen time in the deleted scenes also, explaining his role in more detail and there are more clips from the final Video Game Armageddon contest.
Music[edit]
- BoDeans – 'You Don't Get Much'
- Patsy Cline – 'Leavin' on Your Mind'
- BoDeans – 'Red River'
- New Kids on the Block – 'You Got It (The Right Stuff)'
- Real Life – 'Send Me an Angel '89'
- New Kids on the Block – 'Hangin' Tough'
- Martha & The Vandellas – 'Nowhere to Run'
- Paul Carrack – 'I Live by the Groove'
- Bobby Brown – 'Don't Be Cruel'
- Paul Anka – 'My Way'
- Sally Dworsky – 'I Found My Way'
Release[edit]
Box office[edit]
The Wizard debuted at no. 5,[17] earning $2,142,525 in the domestic box office.[18] At the end of its run, the film had grossed $14,278,900.[2] Based on an estimated $6 million budget, the film was a moderate box office success, after which it became a cult film.[1]
Critical reception[edit]
The film received generally negative reviews from critics. Metadatics 1 5 – powerful audio metadata editor. Multiple newspaper critics labeled it a feature-length commercial for Universal Studios Hollywood and Nintendo. Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times called the film 'a cynical exploitation film with a lot of commercial plugs' and 'insanely overwritten and ineptly filmed'. He later called it one of the worst films of 1989.[19]Washington Post staff writer Rita Kempley wrote that the movie was 'tacky and moribund', plagiarizing heavily from the 1988 film Rain Man.[20] On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds a 32% score based on 22 reviews, with an average rating of 4.39/10.[21] On Metacritic the film has a weighted average score of 23 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating 'generally unfavorable reviews'.[22]
Despite the negative reviews, the film was still popular enough to achieve cult film status and to receive a reunion screening from Ain't It Cool News at the Alamo Drafthouse Ritz in Austin, Texas, on February 8, 2008. Director Holland and stars Savage and Edwards were in attendance to take questions from fans.[23]
Home media[edit]
The Wizard was released on VHS and LaserDisc three times, in 1990, in 1992, and in 1997. By 1993, The Wizard grossed $6 million in video rentals.[24]
It was first released on DVD in Region 2 on February 2, 2001 and finally in the US and Canada (Region 1) on August 22, 2006.[25] The Blu-ray version was released on May 15, 2018,[26] and a special edition Blu-ray was released by Shout! Factory on March 24, 2020,[27] with a new 4K remaster, audio commentary with director Todd Holland, never-before-seen deleted scenes, and more.[28]
Legacy[edit]
On September 6, 2016, Pax West 2016 concluded with a replica of the Super Mario Bros. 3 tournament from the film.[29]
The ABC sitcom The Goldbergs referenced the film in the season two episode 'A Goldberg Thanksgiving', in which Adam and his uncle Marvin are seen watching it in a theater.
References[edit]
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- ^ ab'The Wizard (1989)'. Box Office Mojo. Internet Movie Database. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
- ^Weintraub, Steve 'Frosty' (September 15, 2015). 'Tobey Maguire Talks 'Pawn Sacrifice' and Being an Extra in 'The Wizard''. Collider. Retrieved February 19, 2019.
- ^'Gamecubicle.com Super Mario Sales data'. Retrieved October 9, 2007.
- ^Onanuga, Tola (April 7, 2014). 'My guilty pleasure: The Wizard'. The Guardian. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^Matheson, Whitney (December 18, 2014). 'FLASHBACK: Fred Savage & Jenny Lewis In Cult Classic 'The Wizard,' AKA 1989's Biggest Nintendo Ad'. E!. Retrieved April 24, 2018.
- ^Sheff, David (1993). 'Game Masters'. Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children. Random House. p. 222. ISBN978-0-679-40469-9.
- ^ abSheff, David (1993). 'The Grinch Who Stole Christmas'. Game Over: How Nintendo Zapped an American Industry, Captured Your Dollars, and Enslaved Your Children. Random House. pp. 190–191. ISBN978-0-679-40469-9.
- ^McFerran, Damien (April 2008). 'The Making of The Wizard'. Retro Gamer (49): 84–87.
- ^Matti, Michele (November–December 1989). 'NES Journal: The Wizard'. Nintendo Power (9): 90.
- ^Semrad, Ed (August 1989). 'International Outlook'. Electronic Gaming Monthly (2).
- ^The Eliminator (May 1989). 'Overseas Prospects'. GamePro (1).
- ^Stomp, Goomba (January 11, 2015). 'How 'The Wizard' failed Nintendo'. goombastomp.com. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^Life, Nintendo (June 18, 2014). 'Interview: The Wizard Director Todd Holland On Everyone's Favourite Nintendo Movie Turning 25'. nintendolife.com. Retrieved June 15, 2017.
- ^'Autocar A64 B in 'Over the Top''. IMCDb.org. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
- ^'Home'. JACKKNIFE KING. Retrieved July 13, 2018.
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- ^'rogerebert.com'. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved September 7, 2007.
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- ^'The Wizard (1989) reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved April 4, 2020.
- ^'A Weekend With The Wizard'. 1Up.com. Retrieved March 27, 2016.
- ^Kinder, Marsha (1993). Playing with Power in Movies, Television, and Video Games: From Muppet Babies to Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. University of California Press. p. 12. ISBN9780520077768.
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- ^'Shout Factory: The Wizard Collector's Edition Detailed for Blu-ray'. Blu-ray.com. December 18, 2019. Retrieved December 18, 2019.
- ^Ellis, Tim (September 6, 2016). 'PAX West concludes with a real-life version of 'The Wizard' in Seattle'. GeekWire. Retrieved September 6, 2016.
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