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Universal Pictures is making Alice, an adaptation of video game American McGee's Alice, with Sarah Michelle Gellar attached to star for director Marcus Nispel. Alice is based on the Electronic Arts game created by American McGee, a lead designer of the Quake and Doom series of games. EA's game is based on Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland novels, which are in the public domain. In the game, Alice has grown up to become a disturbed young woman. After her parents are killed in a fire, Alice returns to Wonderland, a dark and threatening place of looking glasses, mysterious potions, nonsensical tea parties and talking animals, confronting her fears and the wicked Queen of Hearts.

Doom, despite its title, is a project that refuses to die. Despite having had several homes -- at Columbia Pictures and Warner Bros. Pictures -- the video game has landed at Universal Studios, which has optioned the feature film rights from the game's maker, Id Software. The game's last home was Warners, where it was under a progress-to-production stipulation wherein the project had to shoot before a certain time or else the rights reverted back to Id Software. Enda McCallion is still attached to direct, and John Wells and Lorenzo di Bonaventura are producing.