Originally Posted By Route66 Or will he call it "Through the Looking Glass"? Anyhow here they are, I must admit I miss that little blue dress (maybe she will have it after she falls down the rabbit hole) <a href="http://infdaily.fusebox.com/2008/09/our-first-look-at-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland.html" target="_blank">http://infdaily.fusebox.com/20...and.html</a> (via Blue Sky Disney)
Originally Posted By irishfan Thanks for the link, really looking forward to seeing how this turns out.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros Isn't Alice supposed to be a fairly young girl? Maybe I'm confused, but I always pictured her bring around 10 (reading the book makes that even more clear). How is it that this Alice appears to be about 20? I think a lot of what makes Wonderland semi-believable is that she's young and impressionalbe, not that she's a druggie. Also, Burton's baby doesn't have a name? It looks like it's approaching a year old...isn't there some legal time frame that you need to name you child in?
Originally Posted By jdub >>Isn't Alice supposed to be a fairly young girl? Maybe I'm confused, but I always pictured her bring around 10 (reading the book makes that even more clear). How is it that this Alice appears to be about 20?<< Similarly, this is one of the reasons "The Wizard of Oz" has always creeped me out.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle >>Also, Burton's baby doesn't have a name?<< I've heard elsewhere her name is Nell.
Originally Posted By disneyfreaksk I can't get the link to work I agree with the age thing. But isn't Alice in Wonderland pretty much about a drug trip anyway? Ask the Cheshire Cat! LOL
Originally Posted By basil fan Why is everything fantasy assumed to be drug-induced? Some people who are not high still have imaginations. Jonny Quest <a href="http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/glitch/questglitch.html" target="_blank">http://www.whatsitsgalore.com/...tch.html</a>
Originally Posted By Route66 From the animated version I always felt she fell asleep there by that tree and had a fantastic dream.. I once had a dream that I had woke up and got ready for work, I swore it was true. But in reality it was just a dream and I was laying there snoozing away an hour late for work.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081007/film_nm/us_hathaway" target="_blank">http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200...hathaway</a> So now Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter are signed for Alice too... [[[[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.]]]
Originally Posted By mawnck >>So now Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter are signed for Alice too...<< Helena Bonham Carter in a Tim Burton movie ... now there's a shockarooney. But Anne Hathaway? Sold! I'll see you at the Cineplex.
Originally Posted By Britain I was about to yell "Called it!" when I read that about Bonham Carter cause I predicted she'd play the Queen of Hearts, but it appears this film will be more chess focused than card focused. I wonder if there will still be the playing cards, or if they will combine the Queen of Hearts with the Red Queen.
Originally Posted By Route66 Interesting. I also wonder how much CGI Tim Burton will go with on this film.. I think using real props and sets brings the fantasy element to life. Just like the Wonka films, the first one captured my imagination more because there was no animation and CGI effects.
Originally Posted By EmmaJayne She's too old! To me, Alice was always so appealing because she was like an old soul trapped in a childs body.. If she is pushing twenty, then it only seems natural she would act older and then she'd have to be more confused.. I'm still excited about it, I just can't believe she can be that grown up and still be the same Alice.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Well, everybody knows who the REAL Alice is--I hope. She's the same little animated girl Uncle Walt brought to live in 1951. This imposter of an Alice will never be accepted by any of us here in Morva. As good of as Johnny Depp is as an actor, he'll never be able to replace Ed Winn's version of the character for us. And PLEASE don't let them ruin the Alice in Wonderland dark ride by sticking Johnny Depp inside such a classic attraction--replacing the animated version of the Mad Hatter. Pirates of the Caribbean is enough of a Johnny Depp invasion for us!
Originally Posted By SoThisIsLove ^^Too true! No Johnny on Alice. However.....the Alice they've casted is simply lovely. And the costuming is exquisite. I'm keeping an open mind. A very hopeful mind. Alice in Wonderland is a classic, and I think it can survive many re-tellings and re-imaginings. Look at Shakespeare, for example. The many versions of Romeo and Juliet. Or Taming of the Shrew (Kiss Me Kate). I think there's room at the bar for everyone. And may I just repeat that Burton's Alice, although older than written, is just lovely and the costuming is EXQUISITE!. *sigh* I am sooooo in the wrong profession....
Originally Posted By FerretAfros "Or Taming of the Shrew (Kiss Me Kate)" Don't forget about 10 Things I Hate About You, which is also the same story (right down to the characters' last names being the locations that they're from in the Shakespeare story).
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle A friend sent me this plot, which at least explains why Alice looks so old (although I'm not sure where she read it)... ”ALICE is now 19 and not interested in marrying a rich boor. Instead she falls back down the rabbit hole. She intervenes on behalf of the White Queen to regain the crown, falls in love with the Mad Hatter...and decides to return home with her newfound courage.”
