Hot off of the announcement of its upcoming world premiere at Sundance, Vertical Entertainment and Roadside Attractions have snapped up U.S. rights to the dramatic thriller Alice, written and directed by Krystin Ver Linden (Ride, Love in Vain), Bloody Disgusting just learned.
The wait to see this hyped thriller won’t be long as we’re told that Alice will be released theatrically on March 18, 2022!
“The film stars Keke Palmer as Alice, an enslaved person yearning for freedom on a rural Georgia plantation under its brutal and disturbed owner Paul (Jonny Lee Miller). After a violent clash with Paul, she flees through the neighboring woods and stumbles onto the unfamiliar sight of a highway, soon discovering the year is actually 1973. Rescued on the roadside by a disillusioned political activist named Frank (Common), Alice quickly comprehends the lies that have kept her in bondage and the promise of Black liberation.”
Inspired by true accounts, Alice is said to be a modern empowerment fable tracing Alice’s journey through the post-Civil Rights Era American South.
We’re told there are some horror elements and it’s a title we should be paying close attention to at the forthcoming Sundance Film Festival. Meagan Navarro will be reviewing for Bloody, assuming it’s of the genre. More soon.
