Syfy’s New Take on Alice in Wonderland

Syfy is bringing us a new take on Lewis Carroll‘s 1866 book Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland in the upcoming limited series Alice. The movie is based on imagining how Wonderland might have evolved over the last 143 years.

Writer/director Nick Willing builds on that idea by envisioning a fantasy world with problems that drag real-world humans in, he said in a press conference in Pasadena, CA. “The White Rabbit is very different,” Willing said. “It’s not just one character; it’s a secret organization that works for the Queen of Hearts and abducts people from our [real-world] land, so they can gamble in the Queen’s casino. The ‘oysters,’ as these human beings are called, are put to play there so their emotions can be drained by the Queen. That is the currency of Wonderland. You can feel whatever you want when you want to feel it. Just take a sip of lust or euphoria.” Willing adds, “It’s not the Alice in Wonderland that you would’ve seen adapted many times before. This is a much racier, tougher, sexier, more driven [show] with a classical story, more like a kind of thriller with twists and turns and surprises.”

The Queen will be played by Kathy Bates and Caterina Scorsone is Alice. Andrew Lee Potts is the Mad Hatter. Here is Syfy’s promo:

The film will be a two-night event coming to Syfy this December.

SOURCES: Sci Fi Wire and Syfy