Mischa Barton is set to star in Simon Fellows' "Malice In Sunderland," a contemporary take on the Lewis Carroll classic "Alice in Wonderland" reports Production Weekly.

Jayson Rothwell's script has Alice re-imagined as an American student who is hit by a London taxi and finds herself disoriented in Sunderland, where she has to navigate a macabre underworld of characters.

Fellows will shoot the film in the United Kingdom early next year.