Alice Screenwriter Interview

The LA Times had an interview(spoiler alert!! in the interview.) with the screenwriter of AiW, Linda Woolverton. A lot of people think of the new Alice as "dark" and "horrifying." She explains her take on it, and explains that she is not trying anything:

I'm sure they will be. It's audacious, what we've done. I don't know know where I got off. What was I thinking? [Laughs] I'm not joking, I was thinking when I was writing this, "Who do you think you are?" Seriously! At one point, I was in London, it was over Christmas, and I was writing, and I had been out walking in Hyde Park, and I ran up against a statue of Lewis Carroll. And I thought, "Linda, really, what have you got yourself into?" I can only say at this point that I wasn't trying to re-create his work. If anything, I hope that the movie inspires children who haven't read the books to go back and read the books.

Click here to read the entire interview. Oh! And I'VE read the books, but I'm not a child!! ;)