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Carola Ash: 'Malice in Wonderland' producer
By Superheidi on June 27th, 2008
Thriller Malice in Wonderland's only female producer Carola Ash talks exclusively to Pretty/Scary about the Alice in Wonderland adpatation and how Mischa Barton was recently dropped in lieu of actress Maggie Grace (Lost, The Fog, Creature Unknown) due to "scheduling conflicts". The 5 week shoot will happen in Northern England this summer with Maggie in the title role instead.
"Malice is a rites of passage road movie with the sexiest female lead since Tomb Raider," says Carola Ash of Future Film Group, who decribes the film as "Alice in Wonderland meets Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" with "quite a lot of violence and drug use. We are hoping for a 15 rating in the UK"... Read on for more!
Producer Carola Ash describes the film by saying "Malice in Wonderland takes its inspiration from the internatinally loved story Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and is the wildest, most contemporary interpretation yet, set in England. Malice is a rites of passage road movie with the sexiest female lead since Tomb Raider. Aimed firmly at a global audience, Malice will tap into and build onto an already extensive awareness of the Lewis Carroll classic, bringing a fresh new perspective to those familiar with the story and an exciting thrill filled adventure for others."
Fans of the original Alice in Wonderland will see their favorite characters contemporized. "All the characters from the book are there, but their names have been changed to present day. Like for example the White Rabbit is Whitey, and he is a hip drug dealer. There will be surreal elements, as opposed to fantasy....The film will be dark, it does have its thriller moments... its gangland UK but its all good fun too."
Aside from Maggie Grace and Danny Dyer (Severance), the cast is not fully complete. "We are still in the casting process. Most of the other actors will be well known faces (all British) but not names that people will recognise, so when you see the movie you will say I have seen him before!"
Aside from Maggie Grace and Danny Dyer (Severance), the cast is not fully complete. "We are still in the casting process. Most of the other actors will be well known faces (all British) but not names that people will recognise, so when you see the movie you will say I have seen him before!"
Execs are not worried about any competition with the Sarah Michelle Gellar film American McGee's Alice, which is based on the horror video game of the same name. "As far as I know," says Carola, "that a very different film"
It also doesn't hurt that the American Mcgee's Alice feature is "presently in 'turnaround' from Universal Studios" according to Scott Faye, a producer working in Los Angeles on Alice, who also recently produced (along with Julie Yorn) the feature film adaptation of the video game Max Payne for 20th Century Fox, in an interview on the American McGee website.
"In terms of the realistic chances of seeing the Alice project being produced," continues Scott Faye, "all I can say is that I have invested (along with Julie Yorn and Karen Lauder, my producing partners on the project) a lot of time and effort in this project," and continues to divulge that "Sarah [Michelle gellar] is not currently attached to the project."
It looks like Malice will be underway long before Alice is, and Maggie Grace will be running from the Queen of Hearts early in 2009.
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