JackFetch Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Just as writer-director Nick Willing completely turned The Wizard of Oz on its ear with the Syfy's Tin Man, he's up to the same trick with Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, reinventing it as an upcoming modern-day, off-the-wall four-hour Syfy movie entitled Alice. The biggest change? Alice isn't a little girl anymore, but rather a 20-something with daddy issues and commitment problems. All those tweaks were fine with Canadian actress Caterina Scorsone, whose credits include Goosebumps and 1-800-Missing. She beat out 300 women for the coveted role of Alice Hamilton and interacts with a wide variety of re-imagined characters that includes the Hatter (Andrew Lee Potts), the Queen of Hearts (Kathy Bates), Jack Chase (Philip Winchester), the King of Hearts (Colm Meaney), Caterpillar (Harry Dean Stanton), Dodo (Tim Curry) and the White Knight (Matt Frewer). "In the Lewis Carroll story, Alice was this young girl, and in this version she's not," Scorsone said in an exclusive interview. "That's significant. In the books, because she's a child, she doesn't have a lot of history and life of her own. In this version, Alice comes with a full trunk of luggage with her own traumas and history and scars. In the original story, Alice finds herself in Wonderland and walks through this world and encounters these really interesting characters, and so her adventure is these little vignettes." Willing's adaptation, however, provides Alice with a rich interior life. "It becomes clear that she's been abandoned by her father as a child," Scorsone said. "So she's got all of these daddy issues, relationship issues, and a lot of emotional repression. Basically, throughout the course of the film, we journey with her into her interior life, which is Wonderland, and she becomes liberated from herself. So it's this beautiful journey of maturation for this woman who really hasn't been able to embrace her womanhood up to this point." Alice will premiere at 9 p.m. ET/PT on Dec. 6 and conclude on Dec. 7. Though it hasn't even aired yet, there's already buzz about a sequel. Scorsone, who'll be seen next in the Mel Gibson film thriller Edge of Darkness, revealed that she'd be into returning for another adventure as Alice. "This was just a really, really positive experience on a personal level," she said. "So the combination of having had a really strong, interesting female character to play and having a really great group of people to work with, and not having to do it for years [as a TV series regular], I think I'd be all over it, doing more. I know that they have been talking about it, so I know there are some ideas for it if they wanted to do more. And, yeah, I'd totally be game." http://scifiwire.com/2009/11/syfys-alice-star-already-looking-ahead-to-a-sequel.php I was really let down with Tin man, so I don't know if I'll bother with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 The fact that it's modern-day is cool. At least that'll make it different from the 50 other versions of Alice being made. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Syfy movie I stopped reading there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I dunno, Tin Man was pretty good until the last Act. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I dunno, Tin Man was pretty good until the last Act. I thought so too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derrick Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I dunno, Tin Man was pretty good until the last Act. I thought so too. Derrick raises hand and nods in agreement Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koete Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Anything that stars Zooey Deschanel cannot be all bad. It's a law of the universe. (In regards to Tin Man). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Alan Cumming hardly hurt matters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I really liked Neal McDonough as well. Kathleen Robertson as the queen was... not so great. Did anyone else notice how the Munchkins somehow became Ewoks? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Molly Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I liked it. Fuck the Munchkins. They've always sucked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Missy Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 Add me into the "I liked Tin Man" camp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KnightWing Posted November 25, 2009 Report Share Posted November 25, 2009 I thought it was really cool how they made Tin Man set in the same timeline as the original story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 I've watched the trailer a couple of times. It looks very interesting. It's got a good advance review on io9 also. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venneh Posted December 4, 2009 Report Share Posted December 4, 2009 I'm intrigued, and since I'm more or less going to be stuck in the house the next few weeks, I'll probably end up watching this. Plus, Kathy Bates and Tim Curry. Why not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc20willsave Posted December 7, 2009 Report Share Posted December 7, 2009 Enjoyed part 1. It was very enjoyable with just the right amount of homage and deviation from the original. One of the things I especially liked is that everyone in Wonderland has a Brit accent. At first, Jack being have the accent just seemed interesting but it made sense later on when I thought about his name.Vaguely off-topic, if Matt Smith doesn't work out playing The Doctor, the guy playing Hatter would definitely do a pretty good job in his place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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