It must be the day for fantasy stories getting the modernisation treatment. Because OC star Mischa Barton has signed up to star in a contemporary re-telling of Alice In Wonderland.
Malice In Sunderland (see what they did there, eh?) will find Alice as an American student struck by a London taxi. When she wakes up, she finds herself disorientated in Sunderland, faced with a strange underworld peopled by stranger characters.
Simon Fellows will start cranking the cameras on Jayson Rothwell’s script next year here in the UK.