Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland (1 Viewer)

[DavidPla]

This will be their SEVENTH (Edward Scissorhands, Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd and now Alice in Wonderland)! Would that be a record for director/actor collaboration or does Scorsese beat that with DeNiro/Di Caprio?

 

[Sean Laughter]

At the cost of finding someone more appropriate for some of the roles Burton has had him play, IMO.

 

[DavidPla]

At least he's given something completely different to each of those roles though. He's never been the same twice.

 

[Kirk Tsai]

Off the top of my head, I'm sure these pairs had more than seven: Ford/Wayne, Kurosawa/Mifune, Kurosawa/Shimura, Allen/Farrow.

 

[Radioman970]

Years ago I would have felt confidence with Burton taking on my favorite story of all time...not now. Hopefully he can at least give us a Sleepy Hallow this time and not a Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.

I'm liking the casting so far!

Depp should be good in that role. In fact, Sparrow isnt my favorite character of his by a long shot, but the Sparrow thing might just work good for Hatter. Just play it a little more energetic and manic.

The look of Alice is great! Very happy with the look of that actress. My favorite Alice was Fullerton from the '72 musical version but she was a little too thin and her face not animated enough. The actress from the Hallmark miniseries had a wonderfully animated face and looked a lot like the old illustrations. But looking at this actress Im happy the most important role is filled...at least in look. Can she act?

 

[DavidPla]

http://infdaily.fusebox.com/2008/09/...onderland.html

 

[Radioman970]

Yeah, she's looking good! Although "Australian" is a little troubling. I need a British Alice. I hope she changes her accent properly.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

My gosh, yes, she can act. She played one of the patients in the HBO series In Treatment - a teenage gymnast who may have attempted suicide. It was an extremely challenging role, in a show that basically required her to sit in a room and acting purely through dialogue with Gabriel Byrne, and she held her own brilliantly. (In fact, in my experience many In Treatment fans found Sophie to be our favourite patient.) When I heard that Mia Wasikowska was cast in the role, I was delighted, since it seemed like great casting of a brilliant young actress.

Curious where the ship comes in - I don't remember a ship anywhere in the books. But I'm looking forward to this one.

 

[Radioman970]

^^^
Yeah, just a little rowboat!

Glad to hear she can act. I can't wait to see what they do with my favorite story.

 

[DavidPla]

Helena Bonham Carter and Anne Hathaway have been cast as the Red Queen and the White Queen, respectively. This would be the sixth time that Bonham Carter has worked with Burton (and she's also the mother of his two kids).

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

Interesting. Presumably they're going to be staying away from the playing cards (since I don't see them wanting a third queen), so this is probably going to be more of a Looking Glass adaptation.

 

[Greg_S_H]

Wow! What a strange coincidence!

 

[Ron-P]

Wow, so far an amazing cast. Tim Burton is my favorite director far beyond any other. I am so looking forward to this film, he's a perfect fit for it. Any word if Danny Elfman will be scoring?

 

[Matt Butler]

Ron-P,
Ya think Burton would go anywhere else for a score?!

(Seriously I dont know but I would assume yes)

 

[Ron-P]

I know, I know, I just want to be sure.

 

[Brian D H]

With this casting news (Red Queen & White Queen) he's obviously combining the two books. I'm disappointed.

We've had countless adaptations of Wonderland/Looking Glass through the decades and never once had a good one that keeps them straight and separate. I was hoping that this really was an adaptation of "Wonderland" and that "Looking Glass" would follow later (assuming this movie was successful). Now it appears that he's picking and choosing chapters from each book without regard to which one they came from.

How come know one can seem to keep straight that Alice was different ages in each book, and that one has a playing-card theme and the other a chess theme. I still may enjoy the movie, but I can't help thinking of all the chapters that will be left out.

 

[MatthewLouwrens]

I absolutely agree. It's my biggest frustration with any Alice film as well - I would love to see a series of two films that are faithful to each individual book.

Still, many of the elements of each story - the White Rabbit, the Caterpillar, the Tea Party, Humpty Dumpty, Tweedledum and Tweedledee - are not necessarily connected to the playing-card or chess themes, and can be easily inserted in either story with minimal effort. And the casting of the White and Red Queens suggests this will be a chess-centric film, which will at least be a change.

 

[Raasean Asaad]

Burton again, with his usual players again with i'm sure the same cinematography and score again...

I'm getting a bit tired of it these days, i hope he actually does something a little different this time but i don't have high hopes.

 

[DavidPla]

Tim Burton working with Crispin Glover! Can it get much better than this? Glover will play the Knave of Hearts!

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/...6cb15642adb685

 

[Sean Laughter]

With a Knave of Hearts - so much for it being chess-centric. Yet another hybrid adaption.