When Aldous Huxley Wrote a Script for Disney’s Alice in Wonderland — openculture.com

Many filmmakers have tried to adapt Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, but none, in the estimation of most enthusiasts of either Alice or animation, have fully succeeded. Maybe the episodic nature of the book gives them trouble, maybe the humor and unexpected logic of its much-celebrated “nonsense” don’t really translate from the printed word to the spoken, or maybe Carroll knew how to handle the boundary between the real and the unreal in a way no other creator can imitate. Nobody knows how many Alice adaptations have, consequently, imploded before even beginning. But when Walt Disney, not a man of small ambitions, set about to bring Carroll’s world to the silver screen, he pressed on until it became 1951’s Alice in Wonderland — about 20 years after the idea came to him in the first place.

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