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Tim Burton comes to the Third Dimension with ALICE IN WONDERLAND and a FRANKENWEENIE to wag in your face!!!
Hey folks, Harry here - You ready for something that is just incredibly unbelievably awesome?
Well... here ya go. Looks like us Burton heads are in for treats galore after the singing gorefest this season! Tim Burton, coming off his best film in over a decade, is going to launch into a pair of 3D movies!!!
Variety is announcing that Walt Disney Studios has struck a two film deal for Tim Burton to direct first... ALICE IN WONDERLAND, starting filmming next year. The movie was written pre-strike by Linda Woolverton. The film will be live-action and performance capture animation (like this weekend's BEOWULF) but in a different style, most likely. Burton let loose on the world of Lewis Carroll's classic is such a joy to hear. Does this mean we'll get a Johnny Depp captured Mad Hatter? Dare we hope too much? Will Helena Bonham Carter be captured as the Queen of Hearts? And who, pray tell, would be the Cheshire Cat or the bong-hitting Catepillar? I can't wait to fall down the rabbit hole with Burton on this one!
THEN - Burton is going to helm and produce a Feature Film adaptation of FRANKENWEENIE based upon his brilliant early eighties short film. This film will be STOP MOTION ANIMATED in DIGITAL 3D!!!!!!! Holy Mary Mother Of God, That's Awesome!!! I literally couldn't be happier about this! 3D rules!!!
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i guess
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Burton has been consistently disappointing for a while now. Sweeney Todd looks like it could very much be the return to form that we all want it to be, but if it isn't then it's a sign of a larger problem. I'm not getting excited about anything on paper until I get tangible evidence to be excited.
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Eat it Elfman-haters!
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that's fair.. I guess since I've seen and loved SWEENEY TODD - I've got the right to be insanely excited.
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I'd love them both to be awesome, but Tim Burton has been too bad for too long.
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Im glad its not a remake and something different,i love the 80s short with barrot oliver,shelly duval and sophia coppola.
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much darker and to his taste.
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Fitting.
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In Frankenweenie,i always liked that dog.
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Spielberg better watch out!
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Nov 16, 2007 3:18:16 AM CST
So we have like 4 Alice movies coming out in the next 16 months
by mixiboi
Alice In Wonderland staring Dakota Fanning, Marilyn Manson's Alice staring Evan Rachel Wood, and American McGee's Alice staring: Sarah Michelle Geller. It will really have to fight the mindspace when the trailers start coming for these movies.
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..Paul Giammatti?
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Nov 16, 2007 3:35:38 AM CST
Plus don't forget the sci-fi channel's upcoming Tin Man too...
by sledge hammer
...or forget it, whatever. Seriously though, that's a whole lotta Alice going on.
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...mixing up Alice in Wonderland and Wizard of Oz like that. That's what I get for posting after working two twelve hour shifts back to back. Then again maybe I'm just brainless. Hmm, maybe I should be the next Scarecrow...
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His best films are Beetlejuice, Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands and, to an extent, Nightmare Before Christmas. Quit with all this Batman, Willy Wonka, Planet of the Apes crap. Stop playing in other people's playgrounds and trust your own one more often!
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Am I seriously the only one who thinks performance capture largely sucks? It's fine (and i hpoe this is Burton's intention) when it's a small, realistically used effect in a live action setting - like Gollum or Kong - but these movies like Polar Express and Beowulf are horrible to look at with there dead-eyed emotionless botoxed-looking faces and jerky unrealistic movement. Burton going the Zemeckis route would be hideous. However if, as i suspect of him, he'll be using it in Gollum way - maybe to render the rabbit or cheshire cat - only, that'll be okay. Oh, and Beowulf sucks, don't waste your money on this film: laughable dialogue, ugly animation, one good sequence after 90 minutes of eye-rolling crap. Don't say i didn't warn you.
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He could be Alice.
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Great news, but does this mean he's off The Spooks Apprentice? I was looking forward to that one!
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I don't care who he plays. Just get him in the Alice movie.
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Damn you. I've been trying to temper my expectations but I gotta say i get a chill down my spine every time I see the trailer. I will be the first to welcome Burton back with open arms and to get stoked about a rejuvenated Burton taking on Alice in Wonderland.
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It's still early in the morning - that's all I got
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Just not with Sarah Michelle Gellar.
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Seriously, though, it's obvious Burton will stick him in there. Maybe in a cameo (which will get him top billing on the posters), but he'll be there. Usually I'm the first to defend Burton, but this "Deppth" of his is getting annoying.
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And he barks and he fucking barks. In a way, I miss this stuff being shouted all over the tb's.
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Noooo, more like the caterpillar. Danny Elfman as the Chesire Cat!!!!
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Or maybe Glenn Shadix as the caterpillar.
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AND I'M STILL EXCITED. OVER THE TOP EXCITED.
I don't think he's been a letdown. "Charlie..." was not the greatest movie, but it had it's moments. And one of the noly three movies in the history of movies that leads me to tears is Big Fish.
THIS IS STRONDOUS GOOD NEWS. And to think that the strike won't get in the way... AWESOME!
Looking forward, besides a Depp Mad Hatter, for, of course, a Danny Elfman Alice Theme! -
Tim Curry. That is all.
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every character will be played by a celebrity. An another opportunity for the definitive Alice movie slips by...
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I always suggested this casting for a Batman film, but luckily they'll never do a Batman film w/ the Mad Hatter. I gotta think about the Queen of Hearts now . . .
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The 1999 TV version. He was good but I don't care to see him do it again.
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Johnny Depp will probably be the Mad Hatter, although I think Steve Buscemi should be the Mad Hatter. Afterall, he burns his penis with red hot cigar butts.
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It would be great hearing again "Domino" in "Frankenweenie".
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lets all take a deep breath and look at the situation
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I was excited about Burton doing Alice In Wonderland till I got to the sentence that said it would be mo-cap. Burton's movies are so rich in set-design, lighting and all that. I would so rather see real actors on a real set.
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Alice in wonderland, tim burton perfect combo...I just hope I dont get major flashbacks watching this one.
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Considering how lifeless and dull his movies have been lately, the doll-eyed look of the main players should fit Burton like a new suit.
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cast PAUL REUbens... cast PAUL reubens... cast PAul reubens... cast paul reubens.....cast pauuu...
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Burton is a punk; a punk I don't like nor trust with this material. Wonderland has been done properly twice already, so why another go (besides the obvious: Disney is the Devil and Burton ran out of ideas when Mars Attack didn't produce the numbers he wished)? I'm actually a little angry about this, which is sad.
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They KILLED the 1999 TV version by transforming it into a "self-improvement" fable, where every character/scenario Alice encountered taught her a charming lesson about confidence and "believing in herself", thus giving her the self-esteem to perform at a music recital. This is EXACTLY the sort of storytelling Lewis Carroll was gleefully lampooning with the "Alice" books -- where the morality-teaching, lesson-based logic of Victorian children's tales was turned on its head (and spun around dizzily for good measure)! It is essential that any "Alice" adaptation capture this crucial element of the books' tone. (The Disney version, for example, may have played fast and loose with Carroll's text, but it captured the topsy-turvy, nonsensical spirit of the books marvellously.) Missing that -- turning Alice into conventional lesson-based children's entertainment -- is as big a mistake as doing "Wind in the Willows" as a primarily slapstick comedy (it's been done), or making Dr. Watson the bumbling comic relief in a Sherlock Holmes story (also done, thank you Nigel Bruce). Burton has a fantastic opportunity to make something wonderful here, if he can only avoid this pitfall. And while I love many of Burton's films, his shoehorning of the Christopher Lee/Wonka's Father subplot into "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" does not give me confidence on this score.
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Because i couldnt get enough of oompa loompas rapping and goofing the beatles....boy was that great!!! I dont trust this at all....Burton becomes increasingly soft with each big studio project....
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I have liked everything of Burton's in recent years. These projects sound great. I am one of the few that loves Charlie & the Chocolate Factory.
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please give it a rest
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seems like everything he's been doing since Ed Wood has been re imaginations or remakes of fables, films and plays.
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Awesome news.
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I just dated myself again.
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Harry, just came across this...
"I don’t know what I fear more – the inevitable Frankenstein Jr. live-action movie, or the Aint-it-Cool-News Harry Knowles essay about how cool he thought FJ was when he was four years old, trussed in a flour sack, and watching Saturday morning cartoons."
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I would go for a motion capture Christopher Walken. But I love Walken, I wish he had played Han Solo, but there is still time for him to play Jesus. Sweet...
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JACK NICHOLSON!
Johnny depp as the mad hatter.
Michael keaton as the white rabbit.
Christopher walken as caterpiller
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I can't wait for my favorite store Hot Topic to get all these new awesome Tim Burton paraphernalia!! YEAH then I am gonna go listen to Korn and Poophole! Sorry, but stupid faggy goth kids ruin Burton for me. And since I am such a non conformist I am going to continue watching Nightmare before Christmas during Christmas time every year like it should be, its not a Halloween movie fuck you all. Because if its Halloween it must be Saw!
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John D will be the Mad Hatter. After seeing pirates, i never thought an actor could get typecasted into acting like that? And probably Dakota Fanny will be Alice, or Zooey Dachshund which I think would work pretty swell.
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I think either Paul Reubens or Jack Nicholson. Both Burton regulars, and both haven't appeared in a Burton movie in almost a decade. I think either will be good. And Depp as the Mad Hatter would be brilliant. Although he won't have to strech from his Willy Wonka, just a little less deadpan.
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Nov 16, 2007 4:49:04 PM CST
You know what would be cooler than a motion capped Johnny Depp?
by darthferris
How about just Johnny Depp? Jesus, people. Pull your collective heads out of your...well, you know.
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Sorry.
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deep most definitely as the hatter.
paul reubens as the worm
paul giametti (ms. sorry) as the cat. if harry knowles isn't available.
I wonder who will play Alice?
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How about Miriam Margoyles as Queen of Hearts..? Steve Coogan (anything), Paul WHitehouse... Harry Enfield as the Mad Hatter..? Just, please, no Americans in the cast. It will kill it.
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Alice in Wonderland has been retold on screen so many times, in both animation and live action, that a new, possibly darker, Burtonesque version actually sounds like a really good idea. I love the story. If Burton can bring his style to it, and bring some good actors along with him, then great.You know what else I'd like to see? A Burton version of Wizard of Oz. Helena Bonham Carter as the Wicked Witch of the West. Johnny Depp as the Scarecrow. Christopher Walken as the Wizard. XD
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Really? I'm asking. Because I don’t know anymore. Post ‘Mars Attacks’ I see an unfortunate change in Burton’s artistic credibility. Some people don’t care about that nonsense (namely Burton, Disney and Infants) but others do (least credible: Myself) and over the last ten years some of us have been getting the feeling that watching his films is a lot like standing in a barn, observing one mighty fine cash-cow. I think Burton has become a strapped-for-creativity old man who’s fabulous crew make it appear that his exhausted imagination is still able to produce and command an audience. Hey, I hope it’s great (it’s not as though it is an impossibility) but the likely is that Mr. Deep & Company will be unable to restrain and focus an over-loaded laundry machine set to the ego-wash cycle. Hey, then again, it’s only Disney’s money he’s pissing on and there’s nothing wrong with screwing The Satan Almighty: Bringer of Annoying Damnation once and a while.
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Kristine DeBell was a Godess...
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I could see both actors having good roles in this film.
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Does this mean another movie where they do obvious shots of pointy spears coming out at the audience and shit like that? Can someone please explain why we need this?
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Tim Burton is an over the hill, over-rated hack who has been given way too much freedom in recent years. "Beetlejuice" and "Edward Scissorhands" were both genius (helped enormously by d.p. Barry Sonnenfeld). "Mars Attacks" was hilarious, but I think it was Burton who was laughing the hardest. But that ape thing and that chocolate factory debacle were awful. Keep him away from "Alice in Wonderland" or "Alice Through the Looking Glass". Let a director with real vision (Gilliam) have a go at it: at least he'll respect the source. Failing that, I'd rather let a journeyman like Peter Hyams have a crack at this. Anybody but Burton. The guy gets to sleep with Helena Bonham Carter; that should be enough wish-fulfillment for one man.
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= Sacha Baron Cohen. Thank you for your time. Agree with Depp as the hatter, and Bonham Carter as Queenie (actually, is Miranda Richardson hella old yet?.. she IS and will ALWAYS be queenie).
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make it happens
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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" also was "quintessentially" English. Don't worry about the cast; English or not, it will be great. Burton knows how to do it well.
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Tim always has been and always will be AWESOME. I can't wait to see what he does with Alice In Wonderland!!! I only wish I could find out if, when and where they are having auditions for Alice. I have searched and searched to no avail.
Johnny Depp would be great as the mad hatter or any other character for that matter. He always does an awesome job. That's a pretty cool thought about Helena being the queen too. I could totally see that. :D -
or Queefer Bukkake awesomeness.
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