The FINANCIAL — The Syfy Network is re-imagining Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. ”The new version will be called “Alice,” and it will be eared on Syfy tonight and tomorrow at 9 p.m.
In a re-make version actress Caterina Scorsone will be played the role of Alice who is afraid of being engaged, puggal.com reports.
Written and directed by Nick Willing, "Alice" gives us a heroine named Alice Hamilton who is a butt-kicking brunette dropping into Wonderland in search of her boyfriend, Jack Chase (Philip Winchester), Chicago Now informs. During her adventure she teams with Hatter (Andrew-Lee Potts) and the White Knight (Matt Frewer) to battle the Queen of Hearts (Kathy Bates), Jack's mother and the ruthless master of Wonderland who rules by keeping her subjects hooked on human emotions.
Willing had previously directed 2007’s Emmy Award-nominated “Tin Man” — a similar revamping of the “Wizard of Oz” – for the producer, not to mention helmed a more faithful adaptation of “Alice in Wonderland” for NBC in 1999, with Whoopi Goldberg as the Cheshire Cat and Tina Majorino as Alice, according to The Wall Street Journal. Comparing the two productions, Willing says that his second go at the work was much more liberating, because the original “wasn’t a classic film story — it’s more a string of vignettes, mad encounters with crazy characters with no real quest.” The new version, which he shot over the summer in Vancouver, “is more of a jazz groove on a classic theme, complete with dips into the unconscious.”
Working to create a story that was gripping in its own right, Willing says he humanized several of Carroll’s creatures, grounding them in reality so the audience can emotionally invest in them. One of his greatest departures was his characterization of Hatter, whom he chose to be Alice’s street-smart companion during her journey, as the same source wrote. Willing also made the traditionally blond Alice a brunette to emphasize his departure from the source material, which came as a relief to actress Caterina Scorsone.
“Alice, in this story, has a real emotional journey of her own, whereas in the book, she’s this wide-eyed young girl who’s walking through this fascinating land, but she herself isn’t terribly fascinating,” Scorsone said in a recent conference call with reporters, according to Boston Herald. “In this version, the fascinations of the land in some ways almost act as a metaphor for the fascinations inside her personality.”
Scorsone has been acting since she was 8 years old and previously starred in the Lifetime series “1-800-Missing.” “Alice” represented a welcome departure from the type of roles she’s typically offered, as the same source rported. “As an actor living in L.A. right now, usually I’m auditioning for procedural dramas. And we’re trying to find out who stole the money and where the body is,” she said. “There’s not tons of room for deep, psychological plumbing. And that’s why most of us got involved in acting in the first place, to do that kind of psychological exploration. And so having Alice in this script as it was directed was pretty amazing for me as an actor and as a person. It was definitely a journey for me. I’m really grateful.”
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