Alice the Vampire Slayer
The long-mooted movie adaptation of American McGee's Alice, a PC game from 2000 and surely one of the most inspired interpretations of Alice in Wonderland, seems finally to be on course for release, judging by the IMDB. This is a film I'll definitely be very interested to see, although I'm far from confident that they'll succeed in capturing the mood of the game. Two pieces of information, in particular, give me cause for concern. One, the director is Marcus Nispel, Michael Bay's little stooge who helmed the thoroughly uninteresting remake of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. Two, they've got Sarah Michelle Gellar playing Alice.What the heck? Gellar is a lot of things, but she's no Alice. For one thing, she's nearly 30, and the Alice in the game is supposed to be around 16 or so - and even accounting for age, she simply isn't the right physical type. The news that they've cast Buffy the Vampire Slayer in the title role also makes me concerned that they've decided to go down the route of having Alice delivery peppy one-liners rather than remaining true to the personality in the game. I'd much rather they'd cast someone like Angela Bettis (May) or Emily Perkins (Ginger Snaps), who have the right frail sort of look and enough of the requisite weirdness. Posters on the dreaded IMDB forums have also suggested the likes of Alexis Bledel and Emma Watson, both of whom I'd take over Gellar.
Oh, and no doubt it will be filled with CGI - which is a shame, given that, in order to capture the off-kilter vibe of the game, you'd really need to do animatronics and puppets for the inhabitants of Wonderland.
Still, we'll see. Who knows - maybe I'll end up eating humble pie when it comes out in July 2007?
1 Comments:
Wow, I thought this one was just forever going to be buried. Unfortunately, it can be seen where it's going.
Another 2007 title I have mixed feelings about is Young Hannibal of which I don't even know what to expect in terms of quality.
By Todd S. Gallows, at 03:50
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