LewisCarroll-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 soon, 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.
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