I must’ve missed the news awhile back that Sarah Michelle Gellar had picked up the film rights to American McGee’s Alice, the dark video game version of the Alice in Wonderland tale. She’s not exactly someone I would’ve expected to have the game’s movie license, but at least someone’s working on getting a movie adaptation made. And apparently she recently stated that she intends to see the film made, despite some prior setbacks due to a “regime change” at Universal. Nevertheless, she call it her “passion project” and is still trying to get the film made somehow:

“It’s still my project, and I’m still working diligently. So to all those Alice fans, I’m not giving up. Because I believe there is such a beautiful, crazy, cool, twisted story to be told there.”

I’d forgotten they were even working on a film, but it still sounds like a good idea. At least then they’d be starting with a video game that actually has an interesting story. Of course, the ongoing writers strike is probably going to delay even the possibility of the movie even more.

Via Sci Fi Wire

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