American McGee's Alice In Wonderland TV Show Coming From X-Men Writer
David Hayter, writer of the first two X-Men films of the early noughties, will reportedly helm a brand new series from Radar Pictures based on American McGee's Alice video game. The EA-published game was initially released in December 2000 for Microsoft Windows. It was critically acclaimed by fans and critics alike, specifically for the game's impressive use of visuals and artistic design choices. After the success of the original video game, a sequel was released eleven years later, in June of 2011, titled Alice: Madness Returns.
The video game follows Alice Liddell, who struggles with PTSD and is left traumatized by witnessing her family being burned alive in her childhood home. Alice enters a twisted version of her once idyllic Wonderland seemingly destroyed by the demented Queen of Hearts. Throughout the story, Alice is guided through the environment by the Cheshire Cat and is forced to fight against the warped versions of Wonderland's natives, including The Mad Hatter, The Dutchess, and The Tweedles. Overall, Wonderland's twisted appearance reflects Alice's fractured psyche, requiring her to overcome her past struggles with the loss of her family to restore the dream environment to its prime.
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In a report from THR, Hayter was revealed to have been attached to a television adaptation of McGee's rework of the classic tale, explaining the similarly to the video game, the series will pick up after Alice's initial return from the Looking Glass after her family has passed away in a fire. Furthermore, Hayter himself offered a statement, expressing his love for McGee's franchise built on the classic story and his excitement to bring this story to the
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