


Willing’s return to Wonderland earned superb rating when broadcast on Syfy late last year, and the DVD has the honor of hitting the shelves just in time to coincide with the release of Tim Burton’s take on the classic tale. He not only directed a 1999 TV movie version of Alice in Wonderland starring Whoopi Goldberg, Ben Kingsley, Tina Majorino and others, he also directed the 2007 Syfy miniseries Tin Man, a re-imagining of the Oz universe starring Zooey Deschanel. It’s only natural they’d want to recreate the things they love in their own image.Īlice is made in the image of writer/director Nick Willing. Fans see directly into those worlds, little gods staring down upon another’s creation. Though fans may not always write their stories down, travelers in any literary or cinematic universe, from The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland to Star Wars and Star Trek, see beyond the page and the screen. Well-loved stories become well-loved not just because of their identifiable characters and universal themes, but because readers can make the stories their own.
