It was beautiful and new, but it wasn’t as good as the first one. I liked Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. The execution and scripts, sometimes? Not so much. His “vision” is flawless, and we got early glimpses of that with Batman and Beetlejuice. I haven’t been able to really LOVE much that he’s done since then. Everything he’s put out since I was in high school seemed TO ME to be running to catch up with The Nightmare Before Christmas. I have to admit that I haven’t loved on Tim Burton’s work since Corpse Bride. This movie is likely to be a hit across the board. I love that the producer assures us that it’s appropriate for little kids and won’t be too violent or scary. I thought the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory remake fell a little flat, but Sweeney Todd was incredible, due in no small part to the excellent storyline that Burton was working with. “This is for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago.” “The book itself is pretty dark,” he notes. There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, whose favorite retort is “Off with their heads,” has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle it. “There is something real, honest and sincere about her,” Zanuck says. “This character is off his rocker,” Zanuck says.Īussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 19, best known for HBO’s In Treatment, has the coveted title role. 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.Īmong 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. 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. The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D. “We finished shooting in December after only 40 days,” Zanuck says. But none has been presented in this sort of visually surreal fashion. Many elements are familiar, from the enigmatic Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) to the fierce Jabberwock (Christopher Lee). “It has been Burton-ized” is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director’s vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Those who have grown curiouser and curiouser about what the offbeat reinventor of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory might conjure up in his version of Alice in Wonderland can feast their eyes on this array of concept art and publicity images, due to hang in movie theaters this week to promote the March 5, 2010, release. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton. You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. USA Today also has scrollable large pictures of the concept art from the film, but no photos of the young woman who plays Alice, a 19 year-old Australian actress, Mia Wasikowska, from HBO’s In Treatment: Anne Hathaway plays The White Queen in a long blonde wig and full red lips. Johnny Depp wears a red curly wig, goofy expression and top hat as the Mad Hatter while Helena Bonham carter is a haughty, cruel Red Queen of Hearts. USA Today has the first photos of the characters in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, due out March, 2010, and they look fantastic.
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