Described by the author as "a sardonic take on agitprop fiction exploring themes of political corruption, justice, destiny and timeless love, with a bit of metaphysics thrown in for good measure", it is based on The Executioner's Daughter, an unproduced screenplay that Trenchard-Smith began developing in 2003.

Get ready for a ripping yarn; a time paradox roller coaster ride, blending thriller genres in a sardonic take on history, destiny, and timeless love.

He continued to develop the story and characters between his daily swimming sessions at a campus pool, "scribbl[ing] bullet points on [his] hand as soon as [he] reached the locker room".

Reportedly, Scarlett Johansson and Keira Knightley were among those considered and contacted via their agents, but Trenchard-Smith believes that neither actress read the script, noting "To be fair, it may have seemed too wacky a premise for a new young star".

(2008), Christian Alvart signed on as director, and a further eleven drafts of the script were written to please a variety of distributors, but eventually the option expired, and the rights to the work reverted to the author by 2008.

[2] Writer Richard Christian Matheson, with whom Trenchard-Smith had worked with on the television series Chemistry, expressed his view that Alice Through the Multiverse "cliff-hangs madly with wild twists, wicked wit and red-blooded passion.