Netflix Is Developing a ALICE IN WONDERLAND and WIZARD OF OZ Crossover Film

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Alice in Wonderland and The Wizard of Oz are both public domain properties, and Netflix is bringing together the two main characters from those separate worlds to create a new and unique story.

The film project is called Dorothy & Alice, and the crossover will see the two characters team up for a “fantasy adventure epic.” The story follows Dorothy who is sent to a home for girls after experiencing terrible nightmares, and it’s at this home where she meets Alice.

According to Collider, Netflix has hired Anna Klassen to write the script, which was previously worked on by Justin Merz (Disney’s Rose Red). She confirmed that news on Twitter saying, “The Cheshire Cat is out of the bag. I’m writing DOROTHY & ALICE for @Netflix, a fantasy adventure epic. I grew up reading these books & this project has been endlessly fun to craft – to reinvent treasured characters and explore the worlds I wanted to inhabit as a kid.”

Here is the synopsis of the original script:

The original script found Dorothy Gale haunted by nightmares of Oz’s impending destruction. Sent to a home for others like her who experience troubling, vivid dreams, she soon befriends Alice, a mysterious girl who involves her in a perilous quest to not only save the worlds of imagination, but the world as we know it.

It’s reported that that plot has changed and Klassen will be taking the project in a “different direction.” There’s no word on what that different direction will be, but I am curious to what comes of the project. I like the concept and can see the potential that it has.