For several years, Tim Burton's been working on his next movie, a remake of Alice in Wonderland that's set for release in March 2010. USA Today got an exclusive first look at the production stills, and as you can see, they're utterly gorgeous--a full departure from the signature look that was used in A Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride.
Currently, the movie is in post production, where the live-action sequences are being merged with motion-capture creatures. Then, the entire movie will be converted into 3-D. Above, Johnny Depp (looking like a dead ringer for Elijah Wood) as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen.
And here's a scene where Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska (from the HBO series In Treatment) walks through a garden of talking rose blossoms, at the entrance of a forest filled with giant mushrooms:
And here's the first meeting between Alice and the White Rabbit, played by Michael Sheen:
The movie is actually less of a remake and more of a sequel. As USA Today writes:
Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn't remember.
Among those who welcome her back is the Mad Hatter, a part tailor-made for Johnny Depp as he collaborates with Burton for the seventh time. "This character is off his rocker," Zanuck says.
Can't wait.
[Via Firstshowing.net]
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Recent Comments | 12 Total
June 23, 2009 at 7:50pm by Desiree Hoskin
How could Burton do this to my beloved Alice in Wonderland!!! How dreadful and disrepectful to such a gifted author and creator of such delightful characters!I am APPALLED!!!!!!!!!!!Please do NOT do this, it is absolutey heartbreaking to see these characters portrayed in such a grotesque way!!! Take your meds Burton!!! You're obviously messed up in the head!!!!!!!!HORRIBLE!!!!!
June 23, 2009 at 9:35pm by MJ Kim
Pooh pooh to the pooh poohers. Burton is a genius, end of.
June 23, 2009 at 9:43pm by Tom Bryan
I cannot wait for this.
June 24, 2009 at 1:10am by Daniel Clark
I wonder if its going to be like American McGees alice where everything is messed up and twisted in wonderland. And I mean really twisted and wrong, like evil.
June 24, 2009 at 11:25am by Nathan Greene
Another big gamble for Burton. Charlie didn't pay off that well. Charlie was already done so well previously. Has anyone really done Carroll's classic justice on film? I argue not...yet!
June 24, 2009 at 11:25am by Lola Gomez
I agree Burton's vision of Willy Wonka was a trainwreck in comparison to Gene Wilder's original... THIS, however, looks and sounds very exciting indeed!!! Cannot wait to fire up the plasma screen and anything else that will enhance this Burtonesque experience... at last we can truly go down the rabbit hole, YAAAAAAAY !!!!
June 24, 2009 at 11:26am by Lola Gomez
I agree Burton's vision of Willy Wonka was a trainwreck in comparison to Gene Wilder's original... THIS, however, looks and sounds very exciting indeed!!! Cannot wait to fire up the plasma screen and anything else that will enhance this Burtonesque experience... at last we can truly go down the rabbit hole, YAAAAAAAY !!!!
June 24, 2009 at 11:26am by Mark Sturgell
I can't get too excited about a Tim Burton "Alice in Wonderland" for the same reason I can't get too excited about having a Burger King Whopper because of their Creepy King advertisements!
June 24, 2009 at 11:38am by KaŦhleen Moore
Almost too good to be true, my favorite childhood disney with my favorite director + favorite actor Depp= Pure genius i tell you!
Burton has done it once again! Kudos! & I simply cannot wait till it comes out! (:
June 24, 2009 at 11:39am by KaŦhleen Moore
Almost too good to be true, my favorite childhood disney with my favorite director + favorite actor Depp= Pure genius i tell you!
Burton has done it once again! Kudos! & I simply cannot wait till it comes out! (:
June 24, 2009 at 11:39am by KaŦhleen Moore
Almost too good to be true, my favorite childhood disney with my favorite director + favorite actor Depp= Pure genius i tell you!
Burton has done it once again! Kudos! & I simply cannot wait till it comes out! (: