After The Success of Wicked, Sabrina Carpenter Will Star In A Musical Alice in Wonderland Movie

Espresso vocalist Sabrina Carpenter volition prima successful and nutrient a caller philharmonic movie mentation of Alice successful Wonderland.

Details of the Universal Pictures task are bladed connected the ground, but Wicked shaper Marc Platt is connected board, aft antecedently steering the smash-hit Wizard of Oz prequel from Broadway to theaters to immense success.

Succession manager Lorene Scafaria, who besides wrote and helmed Hustlers, Jennifer Lopez's effort astatine a large surface transgression movie, is attached arsenic well.

Sabrina Carpenter. Image credit: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AEG.

It's presumed this volition beryllium a caller live-action instrumentality connected the classical Alice successful Wonderland story, which was past adapted (without songs) by Tim Burton for his 2010 movie starring Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska. That movie proved a billion-dollar occurrence for Disney, and a sequel was yet launched immoderate six years later.

But, arsenic yet, there's nary confirmation connected precisely what Carpenter's mentation of the task volition look like. Perhaps it volition beryllium animated? The astir celebrated large surface mentation of the communicative arguably remains Disney's archetypal 1951 adaptation (which did diagnostic philharmonic numbers).

The Hollywood Reporter writes that Alice successful Wonderland is simply a passionateness task for Carpenter, and that the thought has been softly percolating for immoderate clip alongside the singer's enactment connected her astir caller medium Man's Best Friend, which precocious launched to a drawstring of Grammy nominations.

Carpenter is nary alien to movies, having graduated from her Disney Channel TV origins to look successful a scope of films, including Netflix's teen romanticist drama Tall Girl franchise. Recent months person besides seen the popstar duet connected the rubric way of Taylor Swift's The Life of a Showgirl and big Saturday Night Live.

Need your philharmonic movie hole a small sooner? The Ariana Grande-starring Wicked: For Good arrives successful theaters this period and wraps up the communicative begun successful past year's Wicked: Part One. This week, prima Jeff Goldblum revealed that moving connected the task had made him springiness up eating meat.

Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for AEG.

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