Musical Universal's Alice in Wonderland Starring Sabrina Carpenter

[Lily Adler]

Sabrina Carpenter to Star, Produce Musical ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Movie for Universal

'Wicked' producer Marc Platt, Alloy Entertainment, and Lorene Scafaria, who made the 2019 Jennifer Lopez crime drama 'Hustlers,' are also part of this tea party.

www.hollywoodreporter.com

 

[Drizzle]

I mean, it'll probably be better than the Burton version.

 

[Primal Slayer]

Please Please Please

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[Deck Rickard]

Honestly, I would give anything with Sabrina a chance. I love her music and she was really good in Emergency.

And this movie would have to be trying hard to be worse than the Burton film. That **** was insufferable.

 

[sueb1863]

Alice in Wonderland is such a super weird property, it'll be interesting to see what they do with it.

 

[Sawyer]

A shame that break-up happened, because Barry Keoghan is almost too perfect for Mad Hatter.

 

[sueb1863]

Anybody else remember the 1985 musical version starring Natalie Gregory that was on TV from CBS? The whole thing is on YouTube. The result was, um, interesting, but it used a lot of big name stars in entertainment at the time, like Sammy Davis Jr. and Carol Channing.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Anybody else remember the 1985 musical version starring Natalie Gregory that was on TV from CBS? The whole thing is on YouTube. The result was, um, interesting, but it used a lot of big name stars in entertainment at the time, like Sammy Davis Jr. and Carol Channing.

Was that the one the had the Jabberwocky at the end? I remember that thing scaring the **** out of me when I was a kid.

 

[sueb1863]

Was that the one the had the Jabberwocky at the end? I remember that thing scaring the **** out of me when I was a kid.

Yes, that's at the end!

 

[Deck Rickard]

Yes, that's at the end!

Nice. Yeah I watched that one a lot back then.

 

[sueb1863]

Thanks to YouTube you can watch it a lot now, too! It's in two parts, just search Alice in Wonderland 1985.

It seems to be the usual course to go the all-star adaptation route when doing movies or TV shows of this story. Wonder if they'll try that this time, too.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Thanks to YouTube you can watch it a lot now, too! It's in two parts, just search Alice in Wonderland 1985.

It seems to be the usual course to go the all-star adaptation route when doing movies or TV shows of this story. Wonder if they'll try that this time, too.

Nice, yeah I’ll have to revisit it. I have to see if the Jabberwock is still freaky or if it’s so silly now that I’ll laugh at it.

 

[CaptainWagner]

This is the sort of project that I'd normally lament isn't made anymore, because Carpenter is tailor made for it. Thrilled that it's happening and hope it succeeds. There's a lot of gifted song-and-dance talent in Hollywood right now that need to get their agents on this project ASAP

 

[Lily Adler]

This is the sort of project that I'd normally lament isn't made anymore, because Carpenter is tailor made for it. Thrilled that it's happening and hope it succeeds. There's a lot of gifted song-and-dance talent in Hollywood right now that need to get their agents on this project ASAP

Give me a Chappel Roan musical next, please.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Give me a Chappel Roan musical next, please.

Or get Chappell here as the Queen of Hearts. Her and Sabrina already have history together

 

[Sawyer]

Anybody else remember the 1985 musical version starring Natalie Gregory that was on TV from CBS? The whole thing is on YouTube. The result was, um, interesting, but it used a lot of big name stars in entertainment at the time, like Sammy Davis Jr. and Carol Channing.

Was that the one the had the Jabberwocky at the end? I remember that thing scaring the **** out of me when I was a kid.

Weirdly enough, the Jabberwocky never unsettled me nearly as much as the sight of every single actor in heavy makeup in that version….

 

[AndrewGilkison]

Weirdly enough, the Jabberwocky never unsettled me nearly as much as the sight of every single actor in heavy makeup in that version….

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Is that KOJAK as the Cheshire Cat?

 

[Sawyer]

Is that KOJAK as the Cheshire Cat?

Indeed. And George Jefferson as the Mouse.

 

[sueb1863]

Is that KOJAK as the Cheshire Cat?

Why, yes. Yes, it is.

What I find interesting about this 1985 production is that they apparently found a way to shoehorn basically every performer who was still acting into the show, no matter if they fit or not. The cast list is essentially a celebrity manifest of the mid-1980s. Which was a pretty typical approach for a lot of 1980s entertainment. Sort of like The Love Boat. Most big miniseries of the time did it this way.

And as the screen grabs show, there was no attempt at realistic makeup, because the producers knew that it was the celebrities people were tuning in to see and they didn't want the actors (who they paid a lot of money for) hidden behind makeup.

 

[Deck Rickard]

Weirdly enough, the Jabberwocky never unsettled me nearly as much as the sight of every single actor in heavy makeup in that version….

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This movie walked so CATS could run.

 

[sueb1863]

And I mean, they got everybody:

Red Buttons as The White Rabbit

• Sherman Hemsley as The Mouse
• Donald O'Connor as The Lory Bird
• Shelley Winters as The Dodo Bird
• Scott Baio as Pat the Pig
• Sammy Davis Jr. as The Caterpillar/Father William
• Martha Raye as The Duchess
• Imogene Coca as The Cook
• Telly Savalas as The Cheshire Cat
• Anthony Newley as The Mad Hatter
• Roddy McDowall as The March Hare
• Arte Johnson as The Dormouse
• Ann Jillian as Red Queen
• Carol Channing as White Queen
• Harvey Korman as White King
• Jack Warden as The Owl
• Sally Struthers as The Tiger Lily
• Donna Mills as The Rose
• Merv Griffin as The Conductor
• Patrick Duffy as The Goat
• Steve Allen as The Gentleman in Paper Suit
• Pat Morita as The Horse
• George Gobel as The Gnat
• Eydie Gormé as Tweedle Dee
• Steve Lawrence as Tweedle Dum
• Karl Malden as The Walrus
• Louis Nye as The Carpenter
• Jonathan Winters as Humpty Dumpty
• John Stamos as The Messenger
• Ernest Borgnine as The Lion
• Beau Bridges as The Unicorn
• Lloyd Bridges as The White Knight

It'll be interesting to see how the Sabrina Carpenter version deals with how crazy the story is. Not sure they'll go the stunt casting route.

 

[Lily Adler]

I mean, it'll probably be better than the Burton version.

If only Burton had the courage to give us that kind of White Rabbit.