American McGee's (Possible) Red
American McGee is a chap with some interest in old fairy tales, and apparently heroines. According to GameSetWatch, he has now shown off a piece of concept art for his latest idea, Red, pictured above. Instead of going the symbolic route, as The Path tended toward, Red is equipped with axe and hunting wolves this time around.
Currently it has no publisher, but said American McGee:
[The artwork] depicts a scene from a game concept I'll be pitching at this year's GDC. If we're lucky, an interested publisher will help us move it into production. It's an idea that [Spicy Horse art director] Ken Wong and I have been toying with for years.
Years is correct. Just poking about American McGee's blog indicates he's been working on this since at least 2006. The original intent was seemingly to announce more in 2007. What's a few years, eh?
Whether or not someone will pick this up is in the air, but at least we can rest assured that he's also working on the sequel to Alice.
VorpalBunny
Posted to Video Games on 3 March 2010
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awesome news. i loved Alice and was soo interested in playing OZ... here's hoping this one gets finished and put on a console that isnt just a pc.
I don't care for the "let's take a fairy tale and make it...like DARK, man.." thing.
Complaining about this and then panning Dante's Inferno would be kind of hypocritical.
Bizzaro: I imagine if it finds a publisher, that would be among the stipulations.
Edeo: Then again, the fairy tales were originally dark and have been tidied up over the intervening decades. To me it reads as just changing that focus (albeit to one that fits our modern sensibility: more gratuitous violence).