Thanks for the suggestion! I will.
HA! Just scored the last used copy from Powell’s–thanks for the tip! One of my greatest surprise treats was coincidentally arriving at the Bodleian Library when they had a display of original manuscript pages of Alice and original Tenniel drawings as well as other cool stuff–my husband thought he’d NEVER get me out of there!
Thought I’d revive this old thread to post a link to some early imagesfrom this production. Great looking pics of Depp, Carter, and Hathaway in costume, as well as a shot of Alice in the rose garden. Looks incredible.
It sounds from the casting character list that they’re mixing the two books up a bit. I’ve seen commentary online that they’re considering this a “sequel” of sorts to the 1953 Disney version, so I’m guessing the storyline is going to be “Looking-Glass”, but I don’t know where the Cheshire Cat and the Caterpillar fit into a Looking-Glass narrative. The Hatter fits because he’s one of the Anglo-Saxon couriers (along with the March Hare).
And it seems like there are a lot of pre- or post-fantasy England scenes (or at least one large one), with all the lords and ladies and such.
That photo of Helena Bonham-Carter is amazing.
The characters certainly look great.
I quite like Tim Burton, but i thought Charlie and the Chocolate Factory was possibly the most pointless remake in the history of film. While i love Johnny Depp, and i thought his Willy Wonka was excellent, both he and the film suffered because the visual splendor and the darkness that distinguish Burton films was already right there, in the original with Gene Wilder. The new movie added absolutely nothing that you couldn’t have gotten from watching the first one, IMO.
It was certainly more useful a remake than Planet of the Apes.
It takes all kinds. I love Dahl and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my favorite of his books. I found the Gene Wilder version to be supremely lacking in many areas, including darkness and creep factor. I love the Burton version, even if Johny Depp didn’t quite get Mr. Wonka right.
I’m very much looking forward to Alice. I expect it to be a great ride.
Here are a few more.
THIS is a Disney Production?!?!
You take that BACK!
Oh. I see you can’t.
I’m going to tell my sense of cosmic justce to shush, and refuse to draw any conclusions.
Now, now, Dad…No spill blood.
(Tim Burton totally needs to do an adaptation of The Island of Dr Moreau…)
And, we found out, it’s not photoshopped!
Damn, if this is going to be a sequel, I’ll be way out of the loop since I haven’t a clue as to what happens before other than vague…little girl named Alice…rabbit hole (must’ve been a BIG rabbit hole…somebody called Mad Hatter…a tea party…Tweedledum and Tweedledee (and I have no idea who they are), a Queen, and that’s about it as far as my knowledge of Alice in Wonderland goes. I know more about the real Alice than I do about the fictional Alice. I guess I’m going to need to be spoiled just so I won’t be clueless for this one. Why couldn’t he have done the original first, then do his sequel? pout
I love that pic of Anne Hathaway…
She looks like a bobble-head doll. I wonder if they’re going to have her head nodding when she walks.
This looks way, way worse than I thought it would, and I thought it would look pretty bad.
I don’t think it really matters that much if you know anything about the events in “Alice’s Adventures Underground” (which is what the story about Alice and the Queen of Hearts, etc., is actually called). “Through The Looking-Glass” is a sequel in the sense that it occurs AFTER the first book, but the two stories only share a couple of characters (and at least two of those aren’t “really” who they were in the first book), and there’s no actual narrative connection otherwise.
ETA: Of course, Burton may gin up connections that aren’t there in the books…the presence of characters that never appeared in “Looking-Glass” in the casting list says he probably will cook up a few.
pictures and cast and such.
Alice is some unknown young Australian gal.
You wrote exactly what I thought.
The Mad Hatter’s one of my favorite characters too. 
I liked that movie he did about the kindly, misunderstood weirdo.
The photo of Depp is ridiculous, and the Alfred E. Newman gap tooth puts it over the top.