Sci Fi has ordered 3 new fantasy miniseries, including an update of "Alice in Wonderland", another version of comic book character "The Phantom" and an adaptation of author Philip Jose Farmer's "Riverworld" books.
All the projects will be four-hour movies from Robert Halmi's RHI Entertainment.Both Vancouver-lensed "Riverworld" and Montreal-lensed "The Phantom" will air as backdoor pilots, with potential series orders.
The new Vancouver-lensed "Alice" will be written/directed by Nick Willing, who also did Sci Fi's Vancouver-lensed "Wizard of Oz" update "Tin Man".

Swearing revenge against 'piracy and injustice', Kit fashions a costume and becomes a feared figure, riding a white stallion, with a companion wolf running alongside.

The first 1940's 'Phantom' comic books were reprints from newspaper strips, published by Ace, King and Harvey comics. More recent comic books have been published by Charlton, DC and Marvel.

Located millennia in the future, the 'Riverworld' is an Earth-like planet whose surface has been 'terraformed' to consist of one long river-valley, with an average depth of 1.5 miles, shallow near the shore then plunging to enormous depths towards the channel. The banks expand into wide plains then climb into jagged hills before a sheerly impenetrable mountain ridge, taller than the Himalayas. While the valley averages 9 miles in width, the river is 20 million miles long.

