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More Concept Art from Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland?
Slashfilm has hi rez versions of all pictures and the logo
The official web site is up HERE
The poster (Kazren's photo of it)
and images from dyermaker
Sent in by Beatriz, found at USA Today
First look: What a weird 'Wonderland' Burton's made
By Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY
You might have gone down the rabbit hole before. But never with a guide quite as attuned to the fantastic as Tim Burton.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.
"It has been Burton-ized" is how producer Richard Zanuck describes the director's vision of the Lewis Carroll classic. Many elements are familiar, from the enigmatic Caterpillar (Alan Rickman) to the fierce Jabberwock (Christopher Lee). But none has been presented in this sort of visually surreal fashion.
"We finished shooting in December after only 40 days," Zanuck says. Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D.
The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). 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.
Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 19, best known for HBO's In Treatment, has the coveted title role. "There is something real, honest and sincere about her," Zanuck says. "She's not a typical Hollywood starlet."
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. "The book itself is pretty dark," he notes. "This is for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago."
From The Sun
Alice in Burtonland
Wander around WonderlandBy THE SNEAK
CURIOUSER and curiouser!If you thought the wacky world of Alice in Wonderland was already weird, wait ’til you see what movie maverick TIM BURTON has done to it.
Through the looking glass ... Burton's new film
I’ve been given a world exclusive first peek through the looking glass to see what the Sleepy Hollow director has made of the classic kids’ tale.
Our pictures show JOHNNY DEPP as the Mad Hatter, MATT LUCAS as both Tweedledum AND Tweedledee, HELENA BONHAM CARTER as the Red Queen and ANNE HATHAWAY as the White Queen.
Aussie actress MIA WASIKOWSKA plays Alice in this second Disney adaptation of LEWIS CARROLL's fantasy after the 1951 cartoon version.
Twin freaks ... Matt as the Tweedle bros
The amazing cast also includes MICHAEL SHEEN, ALAN RICKMAN, STEPHEN FRY and SIR CHRISTOPHER LEE.
But the real star role is going to be the stunning computer-generated special effects.
Tim - whose past glories also include Batman, Edward Scissorhands and Mars Attacks! - is using state-of-the-art motion capture technology to transform Alice’s journey into a 3D visual delight.
In motion capture, the actors’ movements are recorded and then transformed into a digital three-dimensional model.
This will bring new realism to Alice’s ever shifting dimensions from big to small.
You won’t be able to hare along to see the new film until next March – just make sure you aren’t late for that very important date.
From Hollywood Pam found at the Hollywood Reporter
Disney rolls out plans for D23 Expo
Fan convention to feature film, TV sneak peeks
June 3, 2009Disney will hold its first-ever D23 Expo, a convention for Disney fans, at the Anaheim Convention Center from Sept. 10-13. The event will include preview looks at such upcoming Disney films as "The Princess and the Frog," "Disney's A Christmas Carol" and "Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland."
The expo will also offer fans looks at Disney TV shows, park experiences and collectibles.
"We hope this will be the ultimate event for the multitude of fans who have been so instrumental in Disney's success," Disney president and CEO Bob Iger said.
Walt Disney Pictures will present the film sneak peaks -- which will also include "Rapunzel," "TRON," "Toy Story 3," "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" and "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" -- in a state-of-the-art cinema built especially for the D23 Expo.
Walt Disney Parks and Resorts will take expo guests behind the scenes to explore the legacy and future of Disney's theme parks and vacation destinations worldwide. Highlights will include a look at what's being planned for the future of Disney's California Adventure and discussions with the parks' Imagineers, cast members and executives.
The event will include the 2009 Disney Legends Awards, a 22-year tradition that pays tribute to the talented men and women who have made indelible contributions to Disney entertainment, set to take place Sept. 12.
The D23 Expo also will offer the "Disney Dream Store," featuring exclusive merchandise and collectibles.
The "50 and Fabulous Film Festival" will spotlight three classic Disney movies that are celebrating their golden anniversaries this year: "Sleeping Beauty," "The Shaggy Dog" and "Darby O'Gill and the Little People." Also slated to screen are the upcoming "Tinker Bell: Lost Treasure" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs," which will be released this year by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment in a new Diamond Edition.
Tickets are $37 for a one-day adult admission and $27 for children 3-12. Four-day passes are $111 for adults and $81 for children. Members of D23, the Disney fan club, will receive a discount on up to four same-day admissions as well as early entry to each day of the D23 Expo for themselves and their guests.
A few pages earlier, we showed images from the June Total Film 3D issue, here's the transcript, written by Sky.
On-set and through the looking glass with Burton & DeppWho better than Tim Burton to bring Lewis Carroll's nightmarish Alice's Adventures in Wonderland to the screen? And if you thought Johnny Depp's Willy Wonka was friggin' freaky, wait until you get a load of his Mad Hatter...
Anyway, back to Burton, who readily admits to not especially liking any of the previous Alice adaptations. "It's always been about a passive little girl wandering around a series of adventures with weird characters," he sighs, taking time out on the LA set. "There's never any gravity to them. What we've tried to do is make her a real person in that she's going through this".
Burton's new take incorporates characters and situations from both Alice's Adventures and its literary sequel Through The Looking Glass, but the plot is essentially a new one and his Alice (Mia Wasikowska) is older too, a girl on the precipice of womanhood.
She tumbles down the rabbit hole to encounter a "slightly haunted" wonderland populated by Carroll's iconic characters, brought to life through a combination of motion capture, CG creatures and real actors - Burton regulars Depp & Helena Bonham Carter, who plays the Red Queen, are joined by Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Matt Lucas as Tweedledee & Tweedledum and Crispin Glover as ther Knave of Hearts. All in glorious 3D.We'd like to tell you more but we've promised silence. For now. Let's just say that it's every bit as bonkers as you could have hoped. "All the human characters except Alice will have something that kind of blends them into the world," Burton teases. "I don't want to say too much, but it looks pretty weird." Naturally.
There are two 3d pics with the article, the one that we've already seen of Johnny in character and a scene from the film of Alice as i think she enters wonderland. There is a large wooden tilted door behind her covered in greenery and vines, it is stood alone on open landscape, she is walking across a stone bridge, also covered in greenery (very reminicent of CatCF) and on the other side of the bridge is a curved and knarled tree with spindly branches (very reminicent of Sleepy Hollow).
Couple of extra tidbits, they have an eta of 2010, which is a bit of a bummer, i hoped this would be out next year; and adding to the cast list I read on twitter that Stephen Fry is the Cheshire Cat.
Found by SlashFIlm from Filmz RUPosted on Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 9:52 pm by: Peter Sciretta
Alice in WonderlandRussian film site Filmz.ru has gotten their hands on what appears to be new concept art from Tim Burton’s 3D adaptation of Alice in Wonderland. The initials on the bottom of that art reads “JM”, and the only crew members with those initials are the set designer Jeff Markwith or lead model maker Jason Mahakian. The art isn’t as Burton-styled as the previous pieces I’ve seen, so I’m not sure if these are legit or not. Take a look after the jump.
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in Wonderland
Alice in WonderlandAlice in Wonderland, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Anne Hathaway as the White Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice, will be released on March 5, 2010. Visionary filmmaker Tim Burton will put his distinctive touch on the combination live-action and performance capture version of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale “Alice in Wonderland.” The all-star cast also includes Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, and Alan Rickman.
