In celebration of the release of American McGee’s video game sequel (by Electronic Arts and Spicy Horse Games), we offer this live-action movie teaser trailer. (Also available on YouTube.)
May 10, 2011 Watch the second Teaser Trailer for Alice: Madness Returns and see Alice pulled back into the madness! Aug 23, 2014 Alice: Madness Returns delves deep into the dark and violent side of the imagination, creating a nightmarish Wonderland where Alice must face the demons that haunt her visions. Visit the grim reality of Victorian London and then travel to the beautiful ye.
(I could probably tinker with this thing forever, but with the game’s release — it’s time. I’ll try to update with a little more backstory/info soon. In the meantime, hope you enjoy…)
An HD version of the original game trailer “inspiration” is also available (also on YouTube). Check the previous blog entry for more information and backstory on the original trailer from 2000.
ALICE: MADNESS RETURNS
a short film trailer
a Mad Hatter Collective production
starring Jennymarie Jemison as Alice
produced & shot by R. Zane Rutledge and Gray Haddock
director of photography Paul Gandersman
visual fx by ZaneFX
inspired by American McGee’s Alice
music carved from tracks by Chris Vrenna
conceived and directed by R. Zane Rutledge
FINE PRINT: “Alice: Madness Returns” video game by Electronic Arts (and Spicy Horse Games). EA, the EA logo and Alice: Madness Returns are trademarks of Electronic Arts Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Mad Hatter Collective is NOT affiliated with Electronic Arts or Spicy Horse Games. This is a non-profit “fan-made” movie trailer concept meant for entertainment purposes only.
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http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/AliceMadnessReturns
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- Keep Circulating the Tapes: There are two PC versions of this game; one is The Complete Collection which features the original Alice game, and the standard edition. You can get the standard in the Origin store but the Complete Collection can only be obtained if you get a CD Key from it elsewhere. The standard version was also formerly available on other digital shops like GOG and Steam, but have since been pulled and now Origin Exclusive.
- What Could Have Been: According to Word of God, you really would have fought the March Hare and Dormouse at one point, but development pressures forced them to cut it.
- Also likely to have resulted in What Happened to the Mouse? for a few characters in the game.
- The artbook also shows lots of concept art and details that not only describe what you see in the game, but a lot of it is stuff that should have been in it but didn't make it.
- Go to YouTube. Search Alice Madness Returns Beta Trailer. It's full of old stuff and development things that were planned but never made it into the game, like a swimming level, new cutscenes, new weapons, actual gameplay in the London stages and a rather bloody Victorian scene...
- At least two levels were scrapped during development, one in a world based on M. C. Escher's work, and the other on the moon.
- One page of the artbook depicts scrapped ideas for being able to smash through barriers while 'dashing' in a run or swim. Directly underneath is a scrapped dress design featuring streams of horse hair and a spiralling horn on her forehead, so clearly someone at the studio was thinking of Robot Unicorn Alice!
- An example that also counts as a Take That!: Reportedly EA was giving American McGee pressure to ramp up the levels of sex, gore, and general Darker and Edgier Content (to the point McGee explicitly described what EA was going towards as 'Dante's Inferno + Alice') in the hopes that the game would get an 'M' rating close to the dreaded 'AO' rating. He gave them Shock Content, all right—the 'M-Snail', a deliberately Not Safe for Work monstrosity note with a friendly reassurance that he'd make sure it made it in the game. Needless to say, EA backed down and quickly, otherwise....
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- The Wiki Rule: It does have one.
- The Cameo: It's possible to find Razputin Aquato's skeleton, complete with battered aviator's helmet, in the Queen's Castle, apparently having drawn a memory back out into the open. Apparently Alice's mind is just that rough.
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