Thursday 2 July 2020

Upcoming Film adaptations of Carroll's work...

NOTE: This list does not cover films using Carroll's characters only, so Come Away and Dorothy and Alice are not included.

This list comes with a massive disclaimer, all of these film versions are in production or development, and so some in development stage could still get scrapped!

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A list of upcoming film works based on Carroll.

Based on the Alice books:

In the Land of Wonder (في أرض العجائب) 

Director: Nadine Khan (نادين خان) 

Country: Egypt, Sweden

Status: In pre production (as of September 2020) 

Studios: MAD productions, Anagram Sweden, Les Contes Modernes.

Runtime: 80 minutes estimated (via mandy.com

A modern adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice, transported to Cairo. When ten year old Alice sees the rabbit belonging to her magician father scramble out of the house carrying a watch, she's drawn into a bizarre city which vaguely resembles her home. 

Get Lost

Director: Daniela Amavia

Country: USA

Status: In pre production (as of March 2021)

Studios: Patriot Pictures, Greca Entertainment

Grieving backpacker Alicia is lead into a strange nocturnal version of Budapest after following a young teenager. Currently unknown how Carroll based the film will be. 

Alice

Director: Ross Evans

Country: USA

Status: Script being written (as of January 2021) 

Studios: Netflix, Alloy Productions

Alice stumbles into a world of wonder at a music festival. Currently unknown how Carroll based the film will be. 

Based on the Hunting of the Snark

The Hunting of The Snark 

Director: Simon Davidson

Country: UK

Status: In Post Production (as of December 2020) 

Studios:  Imperious Films

Runtime: 

A crowdfunded adaptation of Lewis Carroll's classic poem about a strange crew who get into an even stranger predicament when they try and hunt the mythical Snark. Includes references to Carroll's other work too. Premiere was set in 2020 but stalled due to coronavirus. 

Based on Sylvie and Bruno

Sylvie and Bruno and Sylvie and Bruno Concluded

Director: Michael Kostelnik

Status: Conceptual phase

Studios: ?

Runtime: ?

Very little about these films (currently at conceptual stage) is known. There is only one entry on IMDB:
Sylvie and her younger brother Bruno escape the repressed Victorian era to explore a world of fantasy and wonderment. 
 If they do make it to production, they would be the first ever adaptations of this notoriously tricky source material. Its currently unknown if the plot will include the real world strand as well as the Outland stories.