Before your mind fills with visions of ballet dancers, what New Line Cinema wants to do with The Nutcracker isn’t to film the Christmas-fave ballet. New Line seeks to re-envision this classic fairy tale into a family-friendly holiday film in “a tone similar to Alice in Wonderland” for 2013.

Deadline reports that New Line has tasked Adam Shankman (Rock of Ages, Hairspray) to direct this new take on The Nutcracker with a script by Darren Lemke (Jack the Giant Killer, Shrek Forever After). This version of the tale “goes back to the original 1815 book by E.T.A. Hoffman, about a young girl and a wooden toy soldier who comes alive and leads her on an adventure.”

Wyck Godfrey and Marty Bower of Temple Hill Productions are producing the project.