Sarah Michelle Gellar Not Fired From ‘Alice’ In Wonderland
Posted on 22 January 2008 by Tim
Sarah Michelle Gellar has been fired
from a new film production of Alice In Wonderland.
Buffy was rumored to have been
dropped from the project, titled Alice, and replaced by Lost
actress Maggie Grace. Sarah on the role:
“It’s a passion project of mine. It’s a story that I’d love to
see. I’m fearful at this rate that I’m going to be the Queen of Hearts
because I’m going to be too old to be Alice. It’s something I’d really like to see done. And unfortunately, it was
the victim of regime change in the studio.
(But) contrary to what you
may have read, it’s still my project. 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, and if I have to get down and write it
myself one of these days, I may have to..!”
March 6th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
If a camel is a horse designed by a committee then Alice in Wonderland is a Tim Burton film designed by Disney fatcats in a boardroom. They spent so much time worrying about selling it as a product that they completely forgot about putting together a half-decent story. This Alice has no character arc; she is exactly the same by the end of the film, and therefore her journey is utterly pointless. The narrative thrust is so weak that they have to resort to a hollow battle scene in order to keep everyone awake.