Fan Casting Alice Wes Craven (2002)

American McGee's Alice is a 2000 third-person action-adventure video game developed by Rogue Entertainment under the direction of designer American McGee and published by Electronic Arts under the EA Games banner. The game's premise is based on the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, but presents a gloomy, cruel, and violent version of the setting. The game centers on the novels' protagonist Alice, whose family is killed in a house fire years before the story of the game takes place. After several years of treatment in a psychiatric clinic, the emotionally traumatized Alice makes a mental retreat to Wonderland, which has been disfigured by her injured psyche. In the early 2000's, a feature film adaptation of the game was in the works with horror maestro Wes Craven attached to direct — in what was to have his been computer-animated feature debut — from a screenplay penned by Go and Charlie's Angels scribe John August, with McGee said to be involved as a co-producer. Sarah Michelle Gellar, Milla Jovovich, Natalie Portman, and Christina Ricci were all rumored to be attached to the lead role of Alice or expressing interest, while brothers Erich and Jon Hoeber were hired to rewrite the script. Ultimately though, nothing ever came of the project, jumping ship from studio to studio and director to director with little to no progress. Follow