I don't know how many of you folks ever actually played American McGee's dark sequel to the world of Lewis Carroll, but I remember plugging this in and laughing at how ridiculous the system requirements were for it. Meanwhile, the game served as being a unique "shooting" game in a time where FPS and third-person shooters weren't necessarily the norm in gaming.
As many of you may ALSO know, I have a strong hatred for almost everything that Tim Burton directs. Besides Ed Wood and Big Fish, I just don't dig a lot of the things that he makes. Maybe it's the Goth style that he injects into everything, or maybe it's the fact that I also don't really care for Johnny Depp. It's all personal preference, honestly.
Well, this article over at /Film has some interesting details (as well as full body pictures of Alice, Mad Hatter, and The Queen) that leave me both disturbed and intrigued. Apparently, Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland...and stop me if you've heard this one before...is a SEQUEL to an amalgamation of the 1951 Disney movie as well as the novel...where Alice returns to Wonderland 10 years later...and all the denizens there are revolting and a bit more twisted than they were before!!!
Here's the thing: while it seems like Burton is ripping off general ideas that have already been in existence for a while, including McGee's, I'm ACTUALLY INTERESTED in seeing the movie now. Maybe it's the fact that it'll be in 3D. Maybe it's also the fact that there is COLOR in this fucking movie!!! Then again, I remember the last two times that Burton adapted something: Planet of the Apes and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory...which I hated both of those. Nonetheless, he also adapted Big Fish, which I found to be breathtakingly excellent.
What say you, folks? Obviously, the Burton and Depp fanboys will show up with their hardcore boners to jack off their love into the eyes of decent cinema, but if you folks can hold your fanboyish ways back for a second, I'm curious about a true in-depth discussion about this.
With the Alice movie that was originally supposed to be made by Wes Craven then passed on to Marcus Nispel and now sits in production limbo and/or Hell with the chances of never being released, is this the closest we could get to a big screen "adaptation" of some form of material from this game? Also, I'm curious to see if Burton took any influence from the game at all...especially since Christopher Lee is apparently playing the role of the Jabberwocky...which was a particularly memorable scene in the game...as well as the book.
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