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The Examiner has a nice article about Tim Burton's recent appearance on the Charlie Rose show, and talks about the time he and Johnny appeared together - and what Johnny thinks about Tim.
The Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter have given us the latest poster
Found by emma at Digital Spy
Sheen: 'Alice had a huge impact on me'Thursday, October 8 2009, 8:51am EDT
By Mayer Nissim, Entertainment Reporter
Sheen: 'Alice had a huge impact on me'Rex Features
Michael Sheen has said that Lewis Carroll's Alice In Wonderland was one of the first stories he loved as a child.
The New Moon star told Parade that he was delighted to be cast in Tim Burton's upcoming movie adaptation of the literary classic.
Sheen said: "I'm doing the White Rabbit in Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland. Everyone has an inner white fluffy animal, it's just a question of finding it before it's too late.
"The White Rabbit is such an iconic character that I didn't feel like I should break the mould too much, so I just sort of went with it."
He added: "Alice In Wonderland was one of the first stories I truly loved when I was growing up.
"It had a huge impact on me and it's stayed with me ever since, so to be part of Tim Burton's version is just like a dream come true."
From Model Bollywood
Step into the weird, weird world of Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland
Friday, October 2, 2009 , Posted by cupliszz at 1:18 PMA video clip has been released giving a taster of the fantastical world conjured up by director Tim Burton for his version of Alice In Wonderland.
The movie, set for release next March, boasts an all-star cast, headed up by Johnny Depp, along with Burton's partner Helena Bonham Carter (The Red Queen) and Alan Rickman. Both of them starred with Depp in Sweeney Todd.
When it is finally screened, cinema-goers will also get a chance to see Burton's adaptation of the classic Victorian novel by Lewis Carroll in 3D.
Depp stars as the Mad Hatter while relative unknown Mia Wasikowska, from Australia, plays 19-year-old Alice who returns t! o the whimsical world she first encountered as a young girl.
There is she reunited with her childhood friends - the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas), the Dormouse (Barbara Windsor), the Caterpillar (Rickman), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), The White Queen (Anne Hathaway) and, of course, the Mad Hatter.
The preview trailer, lasting one minute and 41seconds, opens with Alice going to the rabbit hole, before tumbling down and finally entering Wonderland.
Depp provides the voice over as fans are treated to a smattering of scenes from the feature, which is still in production.
Alice in WonderlandMaking a return: In the flick,! set for release, an older Alice (Mia Wasikowska) returns to t! he whims ical land she first saw as a child
Alice in WonderlandMemories: After struggling to fit into Victorian society she decides to go back to Wonderland
Speaking as the Mad Hatter, he say: 'There is a place like no place on earth... a land full of wonder, mystery and danger. Some say to survive it you need to be as mad as a hatter... which, luckily, I am.'
Last night Hollywood star Depp surprised fans at the Disney 3-D panel at San Diego Comic-Con by showing up at the end of Burton's presentation of footage from the animated flick.
Burton described how the new film doesn't stick exactly to the book by Carroll, but instead takes the characters and various scenes from the novel and moulds them into an updated story.
'It's all based on [the book],' he said. 'This material's seen a lot of film versions of it - we tried to take all the elements of it and weaved it into a story that had some motion to it and emotion to it, and not just a series of events.'
Amazon is now offering two books for pre-order from "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland' The first is a novelization(by T.t. Sutherland), the second is a Visual Companion (by Mark Salisbury). Links at the bottom of this page will take you to where you can pre-order them.
If you cannot see the links below, click on the picture of the book above.
From emma found at Official London Theatre
Matt Lucas talks about 'Alice'
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Certainly Lucas’s latest big screen project sees him following that advice; he is playing both Tweedledum and Tweedledee in Tim Burton’s new version of Alice In Wonderland in which his co-stars include Johnny Depp, Michael Sheen, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Christopher Lee, Timothy Spall, Lindsay Duncan and Frances de la Tour."Work with the best people and they’ll make you better"
“I haven’t done a film in America before,” Lucas says, sounding as though a wide grin has spread Cheshire Cat-like across his face, “I don’t know if I’ll ever get a chance to do one again, but talk about landing on your feet…”
Burton, he says, was a delight to work with, allowing him freedom to experiment before shaping his performance with Lucas’s input. He laughs as he tells a story about a mobile phone ringing on set, a cardinal sin to which Burton responded not with furious anger but by mocking the phone’s owner for owning such an outdated model. It created, he says, the perfect atmosphere. Depp, similarly, had not the merest hint of the diva about him. Instead, says Lucas, he is “a man with a great sense of fun; funny and naughty and puckish and very approachable, not aloof in any way.”
Lucas is unrecognisable in the film’s trailer, his appearance transformed with the help of CGI. Most of the filming, he admits, was shot against a green screen with Burton’s fantastical fairytale sets added at a later date. “There are bits of filming which are kind of unusual,” Lucas explains, “like where you’re being chased by a giant creature and it’s actually a man holding a stick with a cross on the end, but actually, you’d be surprised how often acting feels like that anyway on film.”
