Roth informed the Times that Dorothy "would absolutely not" be involved in the story, with Kapner adding:
Oz the Great and Powerful story and co-screenwriter Mitchell Kapner is currently working on a followup, but producer Joe Roth ( Alice in Wonderland, Snow White and the Huntsman) has gone ahead and revealed who won't be showing up in the sequel: the other famous Kansas resident, Dorothy Gale. Hence, WB is taking advantage of the franchise's reinvigorated status and developing new properties based on Baum's source material (specifically, a television show) meanwhile, the Mouse House will continue staying away from Wizard of Oz territory in forthcoming installments. The LA Times says that WB and Disney are preparing to go head-to-head, when it comes to selling tie-in merchandise for its respective Oz films. Frank Baum's source novel "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz" - such as the Ruby Slippers - and those items cannot be reused in any Oz movies produced by Disney. That's because WB/MGM owns the rights to certain Wizard of Oz iconography that did not originate in L. Raimi and his Oz production designer Robert Stromberg ( Alice in Wonderland) had to be careful, when it came to paying tribute to the 1939 classic's representation of Somewhere Over the Rainbow. Disney started developing the Oz the Great and Powerful sequel before director Sam Raimi's film even opened at the global box office, prompting confusion among people who were under the (mistaken) impression that Raimi had created a prequel that directly leads into the story for The Wizard of Oz (as opposed to, a spiritual predecessor to the 1939 movie).