I'm not a huge Tim Burton fan, but I will have to admit that his next film looks pretty darn good. Anne Hathaway (White Queen), Johnny Depp (Mad Hatter), the up & coming Australian actress Mia Wasikowska (Alice Kingsley) & of course Helena Bonham Carter (Red Queen).
The plot for the film seems a little more intense than your average Alice in Wonderland has been. It's a combination of both books by Lewis Carroll 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There'. Alice who is 17 at the time attempts to avoid a proposal at a high profile party located on a Victorian estate. It's then that she follows a rabbit down a hole to a land she once was before, ten years prior, but does not remember. There is also a feud between sisters within the film. "Hathaway is playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen (Carter), who has an affinity for crying out, “Off with their heads!” The White Queen needs Alice to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch. " Sound pretty good so far!
The effects used to capture the whimsical & strange land that alice finds herself in will be done with a combination of live action and performance capture technology. Burton says, "It's kind of a mixture of some distorted live action & animation. I can't relate it to anything because I'm not sure what to relate it to. It's kind of a new territory for me..."
I'm excited to take the trip down the rabbit hole myself on March 5th of 2010.
But until then enjoy these sneak images of the film!
