Sarah Michelle Gellar's "Alice" Adaptation

Sarah Michelle Gellar told Sci Fi Wire that she's still passionate about developing "Alice," a movie based on the computer game "American McGee's Alice," to which she owns the film rights. The game is based on Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland."

"It's a passion project of mine," Gellar said in an interview. "It's a story that I'd love to see. I'm fearful at this rate that I'm going to be the wicked Queen of Hearts because I'm going to be too old to be Alice," she added with a laugh.

The Rogue Entertainment game is a first-person-shooter based in a dystopic dark version of Carroll's Wonderland. Gellar said she mastered the game with the help of her husband, Freddie Prinze Jr., who is an avid gamer. "I just thought [it] was the most weirdly beautiful game," Gellar said.

She added: "I finished it, which was a miracle. I had a lot of help. We got the rights to it, and Universal wound up getting really excited and put a lot of money into it, and then it's the usual story. There was a regime change."

But Gellar said that she hasn't given up on developing the game as a movie. "It's still my project, and I'm still working diligently. So to all those Alice fans, I'm not giving up. Because I believe there is such a beautiful, crazy, cool, twisted story to be told there."

Calling the movie "the frustration of my life," Gellar joked: "I'll do it if I have to get down and write it myself one of these days, I may have to."