While developing some photographs, she discovers the faces of the old friends from Wonderland popping up - and a mysterious dark-haired girl asking for her help. I think that’s part of : that she’s a very realistically drawn character that anchors all of the nonsense stuff that happens around her.”īraswell’s macabre Unbirthday: A Twisted Tale asks: What if Wonderland was in peril and Alice was very, very late? The book follows Alice at age 18, a spirited young lady living in Victorian, England.
It’s the sort of thing a little girl would say without realizing she was being rude to a mouse. Like when she’s telling the mouse Oh, we’ve got a pet cat back home and she loves catching little mice. “Sometimes she says things which might sound a little cruel, but they’re not.
“The character of Alice is written - despite the unreality of the world she’s in, the character really comes across as a real nine year-old girl. “It’s like I’m stepping into a beloved Disney universe, but I’m also stepping into a beloved literary universe.”īraswell says Alice in Wonderland has stood the test of time, not just because of the fantastical worlds spun up by Carroll, but because of Alice herself. “Alice in Wonderland has a super fan base of over 100 years at this point,” she tells Polygon. Braswell has penned other entries in the Disney series, including the ones for The Little Mermaid, in which Ursula takes over the underwater kingdom, and Aladdin, in which Aladdin never finds the lamp, but when it came to Alice, she felt like she had to honor not only the Disney movie but the literary legacy. So when author Liz Braswell reimagined the fantasy for Disney’s Twisted Tales series - which posit dark, story-warping “what if”s on beloved animated movies - she felt some extra pressure. The classic Disney movie itself is, of course, a reimagining of Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel. In the last half-century we’ve seen the Tim Burton live-action movies, American McGee’s horror video game, a Jefferson Airplane song, two operas, and John Craton’s ballet. Alice in Wonderland is no stranger to spinoffs, sequels, and reimagnings.
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