"Alice" back in production again?

[Apollo]

Gellar Preps For American McGee's Alice
adapting Alice In Wonderland video game...
November 18th 2007 10:09pm | Posted by: Michael Stevens, HNR Senior Editor

Universal Pictures and Collision Entertainment are prepping for the film Alice, based on the video game American Mcgee's Alice.

The horror fantasy film will shoot in Langley, BC starring actress Sarah Michelle "Buffy" Gellar as 'Alice'.

Story begins after Alice's second adventure, "Through the Looking Glass", when she loses her parents, becomes catatonic and institutionalized in 'Rutledge Asylum'.

Years later, she is summoned by the 'White Rabbit' to come back to 'Wonderland', now under the despotic rule of the 'Red Queen'.

Director is Marcus Nispel, from a script by Erich and Jon Hober, based on author Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" and "Through the Looking Glass".

Producers are Scott Faye and Julie Yorn.

Alice is set for a July 2008 release...

http://www.hollywoodnorthreport.com/...p?Article=5050
http://biggamehunterca.blogspot.com/

[droopy]

i don't think so :( it's impossible.. i would really want this but.. i don't know what to believe anymore..

[andrew r]

I was wondering what was happening with this. I wonder if it'll use a lot of CGI in it as well? If so I doubt that it'll be ready for a July '08 release. I still would like this to be made, as it can be quite a dark film, if they stick with the ideals of the game. Plus I wondered who the director was, so I looked him up and found out he did Pathfinder last year and is slated to do the remake of the original Friday the 13th. Upon which I saw that a certain Nicolas Brendon was in the cast list. I wondered what he was doing post Buffy...


Fogot to add, is this film already got a script? Just wondering with the writers strike in place. if it hasn't well July '08 is a very optimistic release date.

[mary-elizabeth]

I too was wondering about the July 2008 release because of the writers strike and CGI, which I'm sure they will have since it is dark and based on a video game...

But hey - the idea that its still a possibility is awesome! And it would be fine if it has to be pushed off a little because thank goodness we will get a good Sarah-dose with TAIB, SG, Possession, and the DVD release of ST...

[spdub]

Originally Posted by andrew r

Fogot to add, is this film already got a script? Just wondering with the writers strike in place. if it hasn't well July '08 is a very optimistic release date.

I think it was at least a year ago but yes it was said that the script was ready and they now needed to get the financing lined up

And by what we heard Sarah say on Nov 2nd interview she said that getting a studio involved was difficult

So it seems that til at least the start of November the only thing holding up the movie was financing

[mary-elizabeth]

Originally Posted by spdub

So it seems that til at least the start of November the only thing holding up the movie was financing

so then wouldn't the writer's strike actually help this get financing? with a limited number of scripts ready with actors, it seems like hollywood would still want to be putting out new movies and not let the writer's strike hurt them too much... what do y'all think?

[sarahbrazilianfan]

Hope thats true.....but Im not so sure either....

[eadweard]

Let's all keep our hopes up and our fingers crossed!

[ohiofan]

I know mine are, Ed!

[andrew r]

Good points spdub and mary-elizabeth! It seems that here's another of Sarah's films needing finance! If only I was a billionaire....