I asked a few times before what would be the next big thing after all this vampire fad made its complete round, what about movies inspired by classic tales by Lewis Carroll? With the anticipation of the upcoming Tim Burton’s ALICE IN WONDERLAND in 3D, comes the question if more material surrounding Alice will get big screen adaptations as well. One of them is a re-imagining by producer/author Frank Beddor (the man who told the world about the MONOPOLY Plot). Beddor wrote the novel THE LOOKING GLASS WARS, the first title of the trilogy inspired by Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, the twist is… THE LOOKING GLASS WARS claims that those two books were nothing but lies and that this is actually the true story, featuring the white rabbit named Bibwit Harte as Alyss’s (Alice’s) tutor and the Mad Hatter is actually a very agile, sober bodyguard named Hatter Madigan
Quite an imagination, isn’t it?! Beddor talked recently on Good Morning America, via Comingsoon.net, and revealed that he and producer Charles Roven (The Dark Knight) are developing the project as we speak. He even thought of Angelina Jolie as part of the cast but he didn’t say what role he’d have her play
“I am working with the producer of ‘The Dark Knight’ Chuck Roven, so we’re putting it together, and it’s pretty exciting to think about it as a movie. It’s a really visual world so we’ll see,”
“I’m just trying to get my neighbor Angelina Jolie to play her.”
The second book titled Seeing Redd, was published in 2007 and the third book, Arch-Enemy was published this year.
Here’s the official synopsis of the book THE LOOKING GLASS WARS…
“The Myth: Alice was an ordinary girl who stepped through the looking glass and entered a fairy-tale world invented by Lewis Carroll in his famous storybook. The Truth: Wonderland is real. Alyss Heart is the heir to the throne, until her murderous aunt Redd steals the crown and kills Alyss’ parents. To escape Redd, Alyss and her bodyguard, Hatter Madigan, must flee to our world through the Pool of Tears. But in the pool Alyss and Hatter are separated. Lost and alone in Victorian London, Alyss is befriended by an aspiring author to whom she tells the violent, heartbreaking story of her young life. Yet he gets the story all wrong. Hatter Madigan knows the truth only too well, and he is searching every corner of our world to find the lost princess and return her to Wonderland so she may battle Redd for her rightful place as the Queen of Hearts.”
