Wonderland role for Buffy star
Buffy actress Sarah Michelle Gellar is to star in a big-screen update of Alice In Wonderland.
The 28-year-old has signed up for the lead role in Alice, which follows Lewis Carroll’s heroine after she grows up.
But movie giant Universal Pictures is not adapting Carroll’s classic books, Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass.
Instead, Alice will be based on a US shoot-em-up computer game of the same name, in which the heroine wipes out the baddies with razor-sharp playing cards, exploding Jack-in-the-boxes and deadly croquet mallets.
The game was released in 2000 and became a worldwide best-seller.
It portrays Alice as a disturbed young woman consigned to a mental asylum following the death of her parents.
She returns to Wonderland and encounters all the old characters, from the Mad Hatter to the Queen of Hearts.
But Wonderland is now a dark and threatening world and she must battle to escape alive.
Gellar, 28, was the star of TV show Buffy The Vampire Slayer and has appeared in films including Scooby Doo, Cruel Intentions and The Grudge.
Alice will be directed by Marcus Nispel, who was behind the recent remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
