American Mcgee’s Alice with Gellar Set to Shoot?

Nearly two years after it was announced that former Buffy star Sarah Michelle Gellar would be picking up the knife for the lead role in the big-screen adaptation of the horror fantasy videogame “American Mcgee’s Alice”, it appears that the production is finally moving forward. Maybe. The report that the film is set to shoot comes from Hollywood North Report, who doesn’t source their reporting, so I have no idea if they are correct or not. But since HNR is a Canada-based site, and the movie is supposed to shoot in BC, Canada, I suppose it’s highly possible that they are more “tuned in” to the productions going on up there.

Here’s HNR:

The horror fantasy film will shoot in Langley, BC starring actress Sarah Michelle “Buffy” Gellar as ‘Alice’.

Story begins after Alice’s second adventure, “Through the Looking Glass”, when she loses her parents, becomes catatonic and institutionalized in ‘Rutledge Asylum’.

Years later, she is summoned by the ‘White Rabbit’ to come back to ‘Wonderland’, now under the despotic rule of the ‘Red Queen’.

The original director attached to the job was Wes Craven, but that seems to have gone by the wayside. Now, Marcus Nispel, who is already attached to direct the “Friday the 13th” remake for Michael Bay, is said to be also directing this one, with an eye toward a 2008 release.

The release date seems a tad optimistic, what with all the writer’s strike troubles going on, but hope springs eternal, eh?