{"id":3122,"date":"2009-06-22T19:34:16","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T08:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2009-06-22T19:34:16","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T08:34:16","slug":"burton-izing-alice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roberthood.net\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/06\/22\/burton-izing-alice\/","title":{"rendered":"“Burton-izing” Alice"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether or not you are interested in Alice In Wonderland<\/em> and the potential it has for being filmed by Tim Burton, the following conceptual art might at least make you “curiouser and curiouser” about the project. Me? Lewis Carroll’s Alice<\/em> books are among my favourite things in the world and Tim Burton is a filmmaker whose works fascinate me even when they don’t work — except, of course, for the abysmal Planet of the Apes<\/em> remake, which I choose to believe was taken out of Burton’s hands during production. The man is a genius of whimsical — and dark — weirdness, so I say: “Leave him alone and let him do his thing!”<\/p>\n

Here is a sample of his “thing” as applied to Alice in Wonderland<\/em> (click on the images to see them bigger):<\/p>\n

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Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter:<\/p>\n

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Helen Bonham Carter as the Red Queen:<\/p>\n

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Add Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, Christopher Lee as the Jabberwock, British comic Matt Lucas as Tweedledum and Tweedledee, <\/span>Stephen Fry as the Cheshire Cat, Crispin Glover as the Knave of Hearts, Ann Hathaway as the White Queen, and of course 19-year-old Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska as Alice — returning to Wonderland for a second time, the first visit as a younger child being largely forgotten — and the anticipation only grows. About casting Wasikowska in the lead role, Burton commented: “We met a lot of people, but she just had that certain kind of emotional toughness, standing her ground in a way that makes her kind of an older person with a younger person\u2019s mentality.”<\/p>\n

The fact that the film will feature “the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness” is no surprise and perfectly appropriate, given the amount of dark, unsettling absurdity that is inherent in the Alice<\/em> books.<\/p>\n

Currently in post-production, the film is due to be released on 5th March 2010.<\/p>\n