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HER MAD HATTER

By Nicole POUCHET

MORNING LARK PRODUCTIONS LLC - as PROD

Fantasy - Development 2025

Adult Alice and the Mad Hatter must turn their budding love into a real relationship in three days, or the Mad Hatter's deteriorating sanity will destroy all of Wonderland.

- Year of production
- 2025
- Genres
- Fantasy, Book adaptation, Romance
- Countries
- USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Budget
- 1 - 3 M$
- Director(s)
- Nicole POUCHET
- Writer(s)
- Nicole POUCHET, Marie HALL
- Synopsis
- Adapted from a best-selling romance novel, the upcoming feature film, HER MAD HATTER is a twist on Alice in Wonderland. It combines compelling storytelling, strong performances from a diverse cast, responsible handling of mental illness, and mesmerizing virtual film sets to captivate audiences.
  
  The story is an updated, socially conscious take on the classic romance format: When Alice Payne was 13 and dying of cancer, she deliriously called the Wonderland character, Hatter, to her bedside. He cured her. Now an adult, Alice runs a Mad Hatter-themed cupcakery in Seattle and suffers from migraines and exhaustion.
  
  Meanwhile, in a fantasyland, Danika, the fairy godmother to villains, has very little time before Hatter’s sanity slips away forever. If she doesn’t find his true love, Wonderland will disintegrate with him. Danika knows that person is “Alice.” But, which one? Opening his heart to and losing Alice after Alice over centuries has chipped away at Hatter’s confidence and sanity.
  
  Danika pays Alice a mysterious visit which leads to Alice plummeting into Wonderland. Hatter pulls Alice through crazy landscapes, confused feelings, and the dredges of mental illness. When they finally fall in love, wounded Hatter insists Alice stay with him in Wonderland without ever returning home. Alice refuses to sacrifice herself to save him; she leaves.
  
  Turning the common trope on its head, our heroine’s love is not the cure to her man’s woes. Only when Hatter makes the effort to deal with his own illness does the pair live happily ever after in Wonderland. This theme of self-respect and unstigmatized handling of mental illness elevates HER MAD HATTER into a love story imparting valuable social commentary.