Alice

David Cronenberg’s 1988 film Dead Ringers set a new standard for twisted twin tales—but Prime Video’s new series adaptation, with Rachel Weisz playing sister versions of Drs. Elliot and Beverly Mantle, the brothers Jeremy Irons played in the movie, carves out its own disturbing place in the genre. Ahead of its premiere next week, io9 talked with Weisz, who also executive produced, and creator/writer/executive producer Alice Birch to learn more.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning…

The rabbit hole is no more In glum news for Gothic gaming fans everywhere, producer and screenwriter American McGee has seemingly confirmed that EA has rejected his pitch for a third title in the cult platform adventure series American McGee’s Alice. The second sequel, tentatively title Alice: Asylum, will no longer move forward as planned, with the series creator currently convinced that the series has come to an end. Having built up a following via crowdfunding website Patreon, McGee took various materials to the…

The decade-long push to get Alice: Asylum--a theoretical third game in the Alice series--has ended, announced developer American McGee.After the completion of an Alice: Asylum design bible--a huge document containing concept art, core game design concepts, and narrative goals--McGee said he resumed talks with Electronic Arts, the company that owns Alice's IP, to see if EA would be either be willing to fund Alice: Asylum or to license the IP out.EA refused to do either. McGee said EA passed on funding due…

Be still my beating heart. The long-awaited fifth volume of Alice Oseman‘s graphic novel Heartstopper — at least if you’re a, uh, what is the fandom called? stoppertops? well, that works for me! — finally has a release date in the United States, and it will arrive just in time for the holidays on December 12, 2023.  The news was announced via Graphix Books on Wednesday, April 5. In response to Oseman’s announcement that Heartstopper, Volume 5, will be released on November 9, 2023, in the United Kingdom, Ireland,…

Alice Oseman has announced there will be a sixth book in their hit Heartstopper graphic novel series, as well as revealing what will happen in the next instalment of the story.The series, which was adapted into a critically acclaimed and Emmy award-winning Netflix television show, follows Nick and Charlie, two teenagers who meet at a British grammar school and fall in love. Their story navigates the ups and downs of first love, friendships, coming out and mental health.Author-illustrator Oseman initially started…

The Grenfell Tower tragedy frames Diana Evans’s new novel, its opening chapter capturing something of the shock and horror of 72 lives lost to incompetence and malpractice, its closing pages bearing witness to a silent march of remembrance. As she writes of the green heart that comes to loom over Latimer Road tube station: “It put a cry in the sky.”It’s a smaller, altogether more private fire that galvanises A House for Alice, however, one that breaks out on that same hot June night in 2017 and causes a forgetful old man,…

Users and programs meet on Walt Disney World’s newest coaster Tron Lightcycle Run at Magic Kingdom. To kick off the attraction’s official opening on April 4 (heh, 404), Disney Parks invited io9 to attend their All the Disney Thrills media days to get a sneak peek at the highly anticipated ride inspired by the ‘80s sci-fi movie and it’s sequel Tron Legacy.Chris Pratt and Bryce Dallas Howard Nerd Out About Jurassic Park's Returning Heroesio9 caught up with original Tron cast Bruce Boxleitner (Alan/Tron) and Cindy Morgan…

Peter Pan, Captain Hook, and Wendy in the new Disney+ film.Image: DisneyThe last decade has seen Disney making live-action versions of basically every popular animated movie of its past: Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, 101 Dalmatians, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella, Dumbo, Lion King, the list goes on and on. Next year there’s Snow White and later this year, The Little Mermaid too. Basically, it’s a trend that will continue until there are no more films to remake, and one is coming sooner than all the rest.It’s Peter Pan…

In March 1915, public schoolboy Sidney Ellwood sends a letter to his close friend Henry Gaunt on the western front: “I am torn between wanting the War to go on so I can join you (‘We few, we happy few, we band of brothers!’), and wanting it to end so you can join the Ardents. Two such thrilling worlds! Aren’t we lucky?”Needless to say, Ellwood’s perspective on luck soon changes. Alice Winn’s debut novel, named after Tennyson’s elegiac poem, begins as Ellwood and Gaunt, seniors at Preshute College, are between two worlds.…

“In the Somme valley, the back of language broke. It could no longer carry its former meanings,” observed the art critic Robert Hughes in his landmark 1980 book The Shock of the New. That cataclysmic phenomenon is captured with haunting dexterity by the screenwriter Alice Winn in her debut novel. In Memoriam is at once epic and intimate, humorous and profound, a vivid rendering of the madness and legacy of the first world war as seen through the lens of a schoolboy love affair.The story starts in school – specifically…