LONDON, Sept. 6 (UPI) -- A new, yet unpublished, version of British author Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" by author Frank Beddor is under fire.
Beddor, the producer of the feature film "There's Something About Mary," has transplanted Alice into a modern and violent fantasy world, making critics unhappy, the BBC reported Monday.
"The Looking Glass Wars," the first of a trilogy, is about young princess Alyss Heart, the exiled future Queen of Wonderland, on a quest to regain her royal status.
Beddor said he got the idea after meeting an antiquities dealer who believed Wonderland was a real place.
"He had a birth certificate to prove Alice was adopted and a letter from her publisher saying the original tale was fictionalized and that Carroll had betrayed her," Beddor told the BBC.
"I conceived the story first as a movie and then as a possible book. I wrote it in secrecy, I was so nervous. It took a very long time to figure it out."
