AliceInWonderland-related stories
Posted Nov 20th 2009 6:02PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
The producers of
Tin Man, Syfy's dark and splashy spin on
The Wizard of Oz, are back with
Alice, a twisted take on Lewis Carroll's classic
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. In a conference call with reporters,
Alice director Nick Willing and star Caterina Scorsone talked flying flamingos, Tweedledee and Tweedledum's torture tactics, and what Wonderland would look like 150 years after Alice's original adventure.
We'll have an advance review of
Alice next week, but for now you can head after the jump for an inside look at the miniseries, premiering December 6 on Syfy. Spoilers follow.
Continue reading Going through the looking glass with Syfy's Alice
Posted Jun 8th 2009 9:02PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, Celebrities, Casting, Reality-Free
TV Squad
already reported that the Sci Fi Channel (that
won't be for much longer) is doing an
Alice in Wonderland modern remake a la their previous
Wizard of Oz remake,
Tin Man. For those who didn't know, it's called Alice.
Well, they've
done some casting and it turns out that Kathy Bates is the Queen of Hearts and Tim Curry is playing a character called Dodo (who in the original novel was a
caricature of the author). Given his malevolent smile, I would think Curry would be better suited as the Cheshire Cat.
I'm surprised they didn't give the title character the surname of
Liddell (instead they went with Hamilton). I can only surmise that they wanted to minimize any possibility of litigation.
Frankly it wouldn't surprise me if we learned at the end of the four hour mini-series that Alice was on a bad acid trip. That would be my adult interpretation of the novel.
Posted Mar 23rd 2009 1:01PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: Programming, OpEd, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free
The Sci Fi Channel (or whatever
its calling itself nowadays) is trying to repeat the success of the
Battlestar Galactica relaunch with a few
new versions of old fantasies. The new shows will be revamps of
The Phantom, Philip Jose Farmer's
Riverworld and
Alice in Wonderland.
The Phantom sounds like standard superhero fare and unless someone utterly spectacular is behind it, I see it as another
Flash Gordon. I could only sit through the first ten minutes of the first episode of that fiasco.
Continue reading Sci Fi is trying to repeat the success of BSG
Posted Mar 19th 2008 1:01PM by Keith McDuffee
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Industry, Battlestar Galactica, Pickups and Renewals, Upfronts
As Brad mentioned last night, a few
new projects were mentioned during the Sci Fi Channel's upfront presentation. The one I'm most excited about (though at the same time frightened by) is the
Battlestar Galactica spin-off,
Caprica, which will have a two-hour "back-door pilot" shown probably later this year.
Another project mentioned which surprised me was
Alice, described as a "modern day telling of
Alice in Wonderland," much like
Tin Man was for T
he Wizard of Oz. What surprised me about this is how Mark Stern, executive vice president of original programming for Sci Fi, reacted when I actually asked him about this idea last year during my
visit to the sets in Vancouver.
Continue reading Alice (and others) coming to Sci Fi
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