American Mcgee’s Alice: The movie, or just a myth?

In this two part look at one of the video games biggest underdogs we talk about it’s original release, but also the long expected movie that never seems to come to fruition.

Now in October of 2000, the video game industry had had a few good games under it’s belt such as Perfect Dark on the N64, Vagrant Story on the PSX and of course the legendary gaming franchise known as The Sims was started off.

Now one game came along that wasn’t offered such a friendly audience at first, and was not very hyped about in the gaming media of the time, but American Mcgee’s Alice busted it’s way onto the computer game scene.

Now if you are not an avid gaming fan let me explain what this American Mcgee’s Alice is:

Alice from the famous Lewis Caroll books, Alice in Wonderland and Alice: through the looking glass, finds herself once again in Wonderland. This time Wonderland is under the tyranical reign of the sadistic Queen of Hearts.

Wonderland though is a metaphor for the dementia that Alice is experiancing in the real world. This then poses the question to the audience: Is Wonderland in Alice’s head? and is it a form of her insanity?

Now sorry to come away from the story but this isn’t our focus, it is of this proposed film of the game which has had many a tale told of it.

Now the game was a kind of horror film in itself with the dark, dingey enclosed areas and also the the unerving music which sometimes may have had to be turned down if you were that of a nervous disposition. These unerveing tunes were created by the Nine Inch Nails drummer Chris Vrenna. Now this is where I start off my exploration of this mythical movie.

Now Marilyn Manson was going to be the composer of the games music until somehow communications broke down and this led to Chris Vrenna composing the music. Now this music Manson composed is apparently to be heard in his dark and haunting adaptation of Lewis Caroll’s life, named: “Phantasmagoria: The visions of Lewis Caroll.”

Now doesn’t this strike you as weird that after, turning down Mcgee’s Alice Manson creates his own film on Caroll. Now I thought that was an interesting point to start off with on our little quest for the movie of American Mcgee’s Alice.

Next time find out if the movie will really be made or is it just tinsel town myth?

    

Will it ever be made into a movie?

~ by waldow on January 18, 2008.