Sabrina Carpenter to Hit the Big Screen in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ Musical
The ‘Espresso’ singer will star in and produce the Universal vehicle
Sabrina Carpenter will star in and produce a movie musical based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland for Universal Pictures. The movie is currently untitled.
The role:
As per The Hollywood Reporter, this is a passion project for Carpenter.
She is said to have approached the studio last year with ideas and a lookbook.
Variety reports that Netflix acquired a pitch for an Alice in Wonderland musical from Carpenter’s At Last Productions company in 2020, though the project never came to fruition.
The players:
Lorene Scafaria (Jennifer Lopez’s Hustlers) will write and direct.
Marc Platt, who produced the Broadway and screen productions of Wicked, will produce.
Also producing will be Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton of Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars).
Sabrina Carpenter will star in and produce a movie musical based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland for Universal Pictures. The movie is currently untitled.
The role:
As per The Hollywood Reporter, this is a passion project for Carpenter.
She is said to have approached the studio last year with ideas and a lookbook.
Variety reports that Netflix acquired a pitch for an Alice in Wonderland musical from Carpenter’s At Last Productions company in 2020, though the project never came to fruition.
The players:
Lorene Scafaria (Jennifer Lopez’s Hustlers) will write and direct.
Marc Platt, who produced the Broadway and screen productions of Wicked, will produce.
Also producing will be Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton of Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars).
Sabrina Carpenter will star in and produce a movie musical based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland for Universal Pictures. The movie is currently untitled.
The role:
As per The Hollywood Reporter, this is a passion project for Carpenter.
She is said to have approached the studio last year with ideas and a lookbook.
Variety reports that Netflix acquired a pitch for an Alice in Wonderland musical from Carpenter’s At Last Productions company in 2020, though the project never came to fruition.
The players:
Lorene Scafaria (Jennifer Lopez’s Hustlers) will write and direct.
Marc Platt, who produced the Broadway and screen productions of Wicked, will produce.
Also producing will be Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton of Alloy Entertainment (Gossip Girl, Pretty Little Liars).
Sabrina Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
Universal Pictures
Netflix
At Last Productions
Lorene Scafaria
Marc Platt
Leslie Morgenstein
Elysa Koplovitz Dutton
Alloy Entertainment
Expanding Artist IP Beyond Music
Pop Stars Driving Film Development
Artist Ventures
Film Soundtracks
Production Company Deals
Artist IP Development
Musician-Led Film Projects
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👋 Disclosures & Transparency Block
- This story was written with information from The Hollywood Reporter and Variety.
- We covered it because of Carpenter’s profile.
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