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Sabrina Carpenter‘s years-in-the-making Alice in Wonderland project is finally happening, with the pop star recently inking a deal to produce and star in a musical film for Universal Pictures in collaboration with Lorene Scafaria. As reported by multiple outlets on Tuesday (Nov. 11), Carpenter is moving forward with the major studio picture five years after it was first announced that she would lead a musical remake of the beloved Lewis Carroll novel for Netflix through her then-new At Last Productions company. At the time, Ross Evans had been set to write the screenplay for what was going to be Alice — which was described as being a “contemporary re-imagining” of the storyline revolving around a music festival called “Wonderland” — but this new iteration will be written and directed by Scafaria, and plot details are under wraps. Billboard has reached out to Carpenter’s reps for more information. Though the musician has been a bit preoccupied with her booming pop career these past few years — dropping the Billboard 200 chart-toppers Short n’ Sweet in 2024 and Man’s Best Friend in 2025, and picking up two Grammys in the process — Carpenter will go into this next project with a robust acting résumé behind her. She’s previously starred in the Netflix films Work It and Tall Girl, as well as 20th Century Fox’s The Hate U Give and Disney’s Clouds. She got her start acting on Disney Channel’s Girl Meets World. In addition to Carpenter, Marc Platt will help produce through his Universal-backed Marc Platt Productions, as will Leslie Morgenstein and Elysa Koplovitz Dutton of Alloy Entertainment. The film will be the latest in a long history of Alice in Wonderland screen adaptations, preceded by the iconic 1951 animated Disney film and a Tim Burton live-action starring Mia Wasikowska, who returned for a sequel directed by James Bobin.
