Leave it to Tim Burton to create a movie where the visual splendors can leave you in awe, even though you are just watching the trailer. Alice in Wonderland will arrive in theaters on March 10, 2010. The movie stars frequent Burton star Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Mia Wasikowski (who?) will star as Alice. Other cast members include Helena Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Christopher Lee, Alan Rickman, and Anne Hathaway. Looks like a big budget extravaganza overloaded with cameos as there are several others that I haven't even mentioned.
On the Alice In Wonderland page at IMDB.Com, the following plot is given:
Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice) attempts to work his gothic magic over one of the best loved stories of all time... Lewis Carroll's 'Alice In Wonderland' and 'Through the Looking Glass and What Alice Found There', which first told the story of a young girl, who after following a rabbit down a hole, is transported to a strange world. Whilst the Disney version of the tale relied on sweetness and light to delight the audience, Burton fans can be sure to look out for the same cartoon traits as earlier masterpiece 'The Nightmare Before Christmas'.
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.
So watch the trailer and get an eyeful from the master of madness, Tim Burton:
Can't wait for the movie and want to see more? You can order the book based on Tim Burton's movie by preordering it at Amazon.com. The book will be released more than a month before the movie. Just click on the box below to zoom over to Amazon.
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