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From Deviant Art Michael Kutsche has an interesting article about how he was invovlved in designing concepts for "Alice" Click on the link.
New images found by Jenny and PanetaDisneyThe news over the new Disney production, “Alice in Wonderland”, from director Tim Burton, aren't only the photos released last week. Disney Brasil has released for the national press, 3 photographs from the August issue of Vanity Fair. The images present Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice.
On the new version of this classic story, Alice is currently 17 years old. Attending to a Victorian party she finds out that a man will propose in front of hundreds of nobles. She runs away - following a white rabbit - to Wonderland, a place she had already visited ten years earlier, but couldn’t remember.
Johnny Depp (“Pirates of the Caribbean”), Helena Bonham Carter (“Sweeney Todd”), Anne Hathaway (“The Devil Wears Prada”), Crispin Glover (“Back to the Future”), Christopher Lee (“The Golden Compass”) and Alan Rickman (“Love Actually”) are on the cast. Walt Disney Studios has confirmed that the movie will use the same technology that Robert Zemeckis has perfected in “Beowulf” (3D captured performance). Inspired by the novel from Lewis Carroll, the script was written by Linda Woolverton (“The Lion King” and “Beauty and the Beast”).
“Alice in Wonderland” will hit American theatres in March 5th, on IMAX 3D and conventional screens. In Brazil, the opening will be only in April 16th, over a month after the american release. Can we wait that long?
Article and more scans from Coming Soon and Vanity Fair
and Slash FiIm
More Alice in Wonderland Photos!
Source: Planeta Disney
July 5, 2009
It's been a couple of weeks since Disney released the first official photos from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland, and now it's been revealed that the August issue of Vanity Fair has three more shots of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice. You can click on them below for bigger versions!
In the March 5, 2010 release, Alice, now 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.
(It's in the August 2009 issue of Vanity Fair)
More Alice In Wonderland Character Photos Slash FiImPosted on Friday, July 3rd, 2009 by Peter Sciretta
Alice in Wonderland
Planet Disney has posted some new character photos from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, which appear to be scanned from a magazine. I have cleaned up the images a bunch, and included the cleaner versions after the jump. The photos include Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Mia Wasikowska as Alice with The White Rabbit. No characters that we haven’t see previously, but each photo gives us a better look at the make-up and wardrobe of Burton’s Wonderland. Thanks to /Film reader Jason for the tip.
The film is actually a sequel to the original story, and follows Alice, now 17 years old, as she escapes from a snooty party and follows a white rabbit down a hole, back to Wonderland. The White Rabbit is convinced that he has the right girl, the one who had visited the magical land ten years prior. But Alice doesn’t remember her past visit to Wonderland. The creatures of Wonderland are ready to revolt and are hoping/waiting for Alice to help them, but will she? Can she?
The bus stop two-sided poster
From FilmShaft
Story Breakdown And Another Image From Alice In Wonderland
By: Craig SharpApparently the marketing machine is in full swing, as in the last 48 hours we’ve seen countless images and now a script review for the Tim Burton directed Alice in Wonderland, starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Anne Hathaway, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry, Michael Sheen and Mia Wasikowska.
Lets start with the script review, I’m not going to post the whole thing here, but for the benefit of the article I’ll summarise:
* The script isn’t exactly an adaptation of the original story by Lewis Carroll, as it is an extension of it. Alice went to Wonderland as a child, and she’s now almost grown. She’s 17, and she’s back for more, but doesn’t remember her times there earlier. She’s about to be engaged, maybe. A rich suitor wants to marry her, and the opening scenes of the movie are of her engagement party. But she, of course, gets distracted by a white rabbit.
* The White Rabbit (who will be played by Michael Sheen), goes after Alice (played by In Treatment’s Mia Wasikowska) because of an omen that she is the one to slay the Jabberwock, who guards the Red Queen’s empire. But when she arrives, she has no knowledge of this, or of Wonderland at all. She meets Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the Dormouse, the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), the Catepillar (Alan Rickman), and of course the March Hare (Noah Taylor) and the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp).
* The good White Queen (Anne Hathaway), of who these were all loyal subjects, has been banished by the bad Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter). She is much larger than everyone else and surrounds herself in a court full of people with enormous lips, or noses, or ears, as well as the Knave of Hearts (Crispin Glover), her most trusted aide.
* There’s also an odd love story that develops between Alice and the Hatter. I don’t know why this is necessary, maybe to juxtapose the love she doesn’t have in the real world, but it seems misplaced. Despite “Sexiest Man Alive” claims, Depp has never gone the romantic lead route. Especially lately, he plays dark, creepy, complicated men that aren’t interested in getting the girl at the end, so it’s an interesting way for the movie to go.Sounds pretty good to me, I can’t pretend I’m not a little disappointed that they won’t be telling the classic story but at the same time I can understand why. The original story by Lewis Carrol has been done so many times, that there’s no way the story would ever be “fresh”, a sequel on the other hand, done correctly could be timeless.
From SciFi Wire
Why Johnny Depp worried about being fired from Alice in WonderlandJohnny Depp made a dramatic switch to play the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland after starring in this summer's historical crime drama Public Enemies, in which he played real-life gangster John Dillinger.
"The Hatter was awfully fun," Depp said in a news conference on Monday in Beverly Hills, Calif. "After doing something like John Dillinger, a performance where it's somewhat restrained because of the responsibility you have to that guy and his memory, that Mad Hatter was like being fired out of a cannon. The Hatter was great fun, and, again, it's one of those things that you're just amazed you weren't fired. I truly am."
Depp plays the Mad Hatter in Burton's vision of the Lewis Carroll tale. Combining practical costumes, motion capture and 3-D computer animation, Burton is adding new levels to an aesthetic that already bears his name, "Burton-esque." USA Today published photos of the characters, including Depp's Hatter.
With orange frizzy curls, pasty porcelain makeup, a frilly black top hat and goth-y circus touches, the Hatter looks exactly as Depp said he intended. "All I've seen, I've just seen the little bits and pieces of it, but, yeah, what I ended up looking like is how I thought he was going to look, how I thought he should look, which was one of the first reasons why I'm surprised I didn't get fired," Depp said.
It's not the first time Depp expressed surprise at keeping a job: He also thought he'd be fired from the first Pirates of the Caribbean film because of studio disagreements with his portrayal of Jack Sparrow.
Alice in Wonderland is due in theaters March 5, 2010. The film also stars Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman and newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice.
From The Daily Mail
First glimpse of carrot-topped Johnny Depp and balloon head Helena Bonham Carter in Alice In Wonderland movieBy Emily Sheridan
22nd June 2009Johnny Depp may be one of the most desirable men in Hollywood, but he looks far from handsome in his latest film role.In place of his light golden tan and dark brown hair, Depp is unrecognisable with his curly orange hair, pasty skin and pink make-up as she plays the ghoulish-looking Mad Hatter in Tim Burton's upcoming adaptation of Alice In Wonderland.
The 46-year-old actor joins Anne Hathaway, Matt Lucas, Alan Rickman, Stephen Fry and Helena Bonham Carter in the eagerly-anticipated movie.
Alice in Wonderland Johnny Depp Mad HatterEccentric: Johnny Depp is unrecognisable as the pasty, ginger Mad Hatter Relative unknown Mia Wasikowska, 19, from Australia, will be playing Alice, who is much older in the film than in CS Carroll's classic.
Seventeen-year-old Alice struggles to fit into Victorian society and is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of people at a garden party. She flees the party and spots the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and follows him down a hole and into Wonderland.
While film fans will have to wait until March 2010 to see the film, Disney have given them a taste of things to come with the first official glimpse of the cast in their garish costumes.
Alice in Wonderland Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) Off with their heads: Helena Bonham Carter, with an oversized head, is the Red QueenThe look of the film is typical Burton style with Victorian styling and extreme colour contrasts. As well as being transformed by their costumes, the cast's features have been digitally altered, making them look far removed from their normal selves. As the tea-drinking, unbirthday-celebrating Mad Hatter, Johnny's eyes are yellow and enlarged.
Producer Richard Zanuck said: 'This character is off his rocker. He is so much fun and so nutty, I can't imagine anyone else doing it.'
Alice in Wonderland The White Queen (Anne Hathaway) Ethereal: Anne Hathaway plays the White Queen who was overthrown by her power-crazed sister
The film also stars Burton's muse and real-life partner Bonham Carter, whose head has been digitally swelled to play the Red Queen. Dressed in full royal regalia, Bonham Carter's body is dwarfed by her bulbous head, a physical reflection of the Queen's enormous ego. The Red Queen has overthrown her sister, the White Queen (Hathaway) and has turned Wonderland from a peaceful kingdom to a land of paranoia and fear.
Zanuck explained: 'The creatures are ready to revolt and waiting for Alice to help them.' Normally a brunette, Hathaway looks ethereal with her platinum blonde hair and alabaster skin as she plays the exiled Queen.
matt lucasRhyming mad: Matt Lucas has been digitally-enhanced beyond all recognition to play Tweedledee and Tweedledum Zanuck describes her as 'beautiful but over the top. She doesn't walk. She floats. She's very eccentric'.
The Devil Wears Prada star Hathaway added: 'She's cute, but psycho. Things even out.' Little Britain star Lucas plays rhyming twins Tweedledee and Tweedledum, who has been digitally manipulated to look egg-shaped using motion-capture technology. The pair are two of the first characters to meet Alice upon her arrival in Wonderland and introduce her to the Mad Hatter.
Explaining his casting of newcomer Wasikowska as Alice, Burton said: 'We met a lot of people, but she just had that certain kind of emotional toughness, standing her ground in a way that makes her kind of an older person with a younger person?s mentality.'
The film also stars Christopher Lee as the Jabberwock, Rickman as the Caterpiller, Fry as the Cheshire Cat and Back To The Future actor Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts.
