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Tim Burton Finds An ALICE To Send To WONDERLAND!!
Merrick here...
Mia Wasikowska will climb into Tim Burton's rabbit hole (wait, that doesn't sound right) as the title character in Burton & Disney's live-action, Digital 3-D adaptation of ALICE IN WONDERLAND. So says THIS ARTICLE in Hollywood Reporter.
Mia is an Australian actress with numerous credits, roughly half of them TV. You can find her official website HERE.
The film rolls in a few months for a targeted 2010 release. Burton's directing from a script by LION KING's Linda Woolverton.
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Who will climb into her hole?
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An enquiring mind needs to know!
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that this was Sarah Michelle Geller's pet project?
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My 8-year-old boy loves that show. I'm a bit worried about him. Even my two 5-year-old girls don't care for it.
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If we're not getting an American McGee version, make sure we get a nice, subtlely twisted version! :-)
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Seriously, is it just me or am I wrong to think that Burton's Sweeney Todd came out like a bang last December and then swiftly vanished from everyone's memory?
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Twisted and dark...
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...then please don't bother.And your missus is a given for the Red Queen, right?
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Tim Burton is awesome!
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She was a pretty believable teenage girl on that show, and held her own opposite Gabriel Byrne.
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Helena Bonham Carter will play the Queen of Hearts.
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What part will the Depp play?
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Duh.
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Revisiting his unique turn in leaving Las Vegas! Ray Wintone to play Tweedle Dum &Tweedle Dee with real kids voices....that would be spooky. As long as the Cheshire Cat's better animated than Garfield, should be a winner! thinboyslim is clearly right wih the Bonham casting!
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I think it'd be cool to see a physical Mad Hatter, not sure if Depp could do that!
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Because it wasn't good. Cohen and the boy playing Toby were the only redeeming factors. Carter in particular was quite horrid. I blame Burton for miscasting her.
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of Burtons obvious choices it just feels like he already made this movie. Creepy titles, Dark and Curly visuals with stripey stockings and Johny frickin Depp as the Mad Hatter and BonHomie Carter as some buxom dark eyed wench... Yawn.
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in In Treatment.
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Would've been Burton's first choice.
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What can I say? He's made a few good films - Pee Wee, Ed Wood, Batman Returns - but nothing to justify the way he's somehow lauded as a visionary and an auteur. He's the original 'Dark = Good' guy. (No, in actual fact Good = Good.) What other 'visionary' would turn in those terrible remakes of Willy Wonker and Planet of the Apes?
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Rumors about that "One Life to Live" girl playing Alice made me lose faith.
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Oh wait, that's not her?
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With Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins?
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in Wonderland. They are from the sequel, Looking Glass.
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is in fact a sequel as well. It wasn't a gothic version of the original tale. It's Alice's *return* to Wonderland. Still an amazing visual feast though.
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For some reason, I'm not very excited about this. Seems such an obvious project for Burton to do.
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Time to do a Buffy movie!
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The story is plenty dark to begin with. Besides, making the story darker is too obvious. All he has to do is adapt the story faithfully and add some of his gorgeous set designs.
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Burton should be all awesome and stuff, and make this children's movie terrifying and unrelentingly nightmarish! He doesn't have to worry about scaring away the target kids' demographic, because the legions of fanboys who love dark, awesomely bitter and hopeless movies will flock to this, in the same way that fanboys made such a gigantic box office smash out of Snakes on a Plane! Dark it up, Burton! TRUST ME!
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oh well
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Seriously, why do people always give Wes Anderson such a hard time for his whimsical style, but Tim Burton gets a pass. At least Wes works from original material and deals with adult themes. Burton's twee-goth B.S. is just so junior high school.
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Yeah I said it. Fall off my ass. Sweeney Todd is alive and well in my mind and on video.
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Alice herself will be live action apparently, the creatures that aren't human will be CG, obviously. The Queen and possibly Tweedledum/Dee may be played live action I would assume.
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Two good flicks, Pee Wee and Ed Wood. Shows he has talent but is happy being a corporate yes man. Part of the problem not the solution tim. what is that like 5 remakes for you now?
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Super lame. I hate Burton (a bit)
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Forgive my ignorance. Anyway, this could be good or could be by the numbers Burton.. I'm hoping for the former. As long as Elfman is on board though, I'm happy (and no I'm not flaming - I love Elfman)!
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i'd rather it be all stop motion, puppets and models, but the way theyre doing it here sounds like it could be mindbottling. and how could anyone say 'tim burton suck' you sound like a neanderthal, and it's a dumb statement, the guy makes dark fairy tales, you don't get that much often in films at all, he's refreshing, so what if he repeats himself sometimes, he has a lot of ideas he wants to spread around and he can't jumble them all into one film. and he has more than 2 good films.
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Damn You Michael Bay
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Have a look at this...
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Hello again, tiresome little boy.Have you not realised yet that when you're the only one laughing, the joke is no longer funny?How about you go away, grow up, change your tag-name and come back and join the boards as an adult?
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Is telling people to be an adult? Just kidding man, the name is fucking awesome. And IMO, the joke was never funny in the first place. This guy is a fucking worthless piece of shit. BumbleBay has won, give it up, kill yourself, MCMLXXVI.
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I'm certain he will find a role for Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp...
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Never stop.
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one after the other. Fuck me. Ban that chick's advertising troll-ish ass. Again.
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Jul 24, 2008 10:23:49 AM CDT
"of Burtons obvious choices it just feels like he already made t
by iamlegolas
Right! Would have been way more interesting to do that Ripley bio-pic.
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Excepting "The Corpse Bride" (which was, like everything the man does, visually interesting but dull) Burton hasn't made a truly original feature in 18 years. Why is everyone so in love with this guy?
Oh, and obvious casting - Jeffrey Jones as the White Rabbit, Depp as Mad Hatter, probably Jack Black as the Cheshire Cat (although Danny Devito would make sense too), and natch Bonham-Carter as the Queen of Hearts -
This girl was GREAT in IN Treatment. I wanted to box her ears and at the same time give her a hug. She'll give a great performance. THOUGH I'm kinda sick of Tim Burton dropping his dark, gothic log all over every. I'd like to see the dude so something totally original now and then. What if Tim got his hands on a Charlie Kaufman script? Or if he did a dark 70's cop movie? Maybe get him on a Lovecraft story. Lets change it up, Timmy-boy. And don't put your struggling wife in all of your movies, for the love of Bob.
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They always cast a teenager or adult Alice, and then make all the creatures of Wonderland into a smorgasbord of celebrities wearing silly costumes (but making sure not to hide their faces, so you can recognize them). They also make it into a musical-- Sure, there were some songs in the book, but there were songs in Lord of the Rings, too, and they didn't go nuts and make THAT into a musical.
I love Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, but I've disliked EVERY SINGLE film adaptation I've ever seen. Nobody ever, ever, ever gets it right. It just becomes a way to parade big name celebrities around.
Burton will fuck this up with his trademarked, painfully-forced weirdness. I was a goth-punk in the 80s, and he had some level of cool back then, but now he just does weird for the sake of being weird, and it ends up more often like Planet of the Apes or Charlie and the Chocolate Factory ("weirder" versions of older movies) rather than like Sweeny Todd (A true improvement upon the stage version in some respects, thanks to Burton toning down his "weird-for-weirdness'-sake" aesthetic.)
Burton misses a lot more than he hits, and it's been that way since Batman. Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Ed Wood, and PARTS of Sleepy Hollow were awesome. The rest of his films have been fundamentally flawed.
Also, as much as I love Elfman, Burton needs to dump him for future movies. This marriage made in hell is what kills Burton's work half the time. Ed Wood was great because we didn't have Elfman's tiresome scores punctuating everything the characters did with loud brass blurts or childrens' choirs singing "lalalala" --- The guy rewrites the Beetlejuice score for everything he does, with the exception of Sweeny Todd, where his work was quite good. -
he's got the hair and the nose already ..Johney D would most likely be a Lewis Carol {sitting on the riverbank , reading to Alice } type prologue!Thus tying with Ian Holme as an actor who's played both J.M Barrie and Lewis Carol
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This seems to happen with *every *film released to be honest.Masses of hype, and then , they are lucky to get two weeks at my local crappy multiplex {cineworld Bexleyheath ,England...the most ineptly run cinema in the western world!!!}before vanishing , turning up on DVD four months later , for a slight revival..and then gone again more or less for good.It takes a classic one in fifty or so films to take on any sort of post cinema showing life.That said I rather liked Sweeney Todd,and with the exception of Planet of the apes.I've liked everything Tim has produced.He does seem to be in a bit off a rut though.As a few peaple have mentioned, Alice is sooo kind of predictable ..that it's like hes already made it.Stripey socks all round, and dark under the eyes ahoy!
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Heh. Perfect description.
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Pop up to Streatham Odean, mate. It will redefine your definition of 'ineptly run'.
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But with the goons running that place, I wouldn't rule out the possibility of seeing 'Odean' in lights at some point in the future...
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Really?
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What's so bad about the Streatham Odean?I find it hard to believe it's run worse than my one .Are we talking , the whole film completely out of focus apart from a two foot square in the middle ...or the top of the film projected halfway up the screen, and the rest onto the front row audience!!!!..or cleaners still trying to clean around you , whilst the fucking film has started!!Because thats the magic of cineworld!
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Jul 24, 2008 1:19:08 PM CDT
I'm pissed off that Burton didn't make The Great Glass Elevator
by yotzvonfrelnik
When I heard he was doing Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, I was excited with the certainty that it would do great, since it was Tim Burton, and that we'd FINALLY get to see the Great Glass Elevator finally made into a great movie. But noooo, it just had to be a self-contained story. Damn.
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Focussing issues, yes, though not quite as bad as your experiences. Plus, you have cleaners? Streatham looks like it hasn't been cleaned since the Seventies. There are probably still several 'Olde English Spangles' trodden into what's left of the carpet.However, it's the clientele that really make the experience. Endless hordes of hooded, fourteen-year-old scum who like nothing better than to sit in the dark talking loudly to each other on their mobile phones. Why do some people want to spend money to talk through a film and why can't it be legal for me to stab them?
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Good stuff.
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I predict it is going to suck
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We don't have it here! What is the point?
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I look forward to what Burton does with Alice!
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I think he's the most successful when he has a sense of whimsy and humor in his films. Unlike Fincher, a truly hit or miss director, Burton isn't an aesthetic nihilist. Although, when he makes a truly dark film, it usually fits the material. Sweeny Todd was probably his bleakest film to date. His last truly great movie was Big Fish, which wasn't that dark at all. In fact, watching Big Fish you might have been tricked into thinking that Burton actually likes humanity.
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Why do peaple spend money to talk thru a film.My wife and I said exactly the same thing two nights ago.We tend to get teenage girls who just seem intent on fucking up a film for anyone who actually wants to watch it.I forgot to mention another highlight,When we went to see *open water* one tuesday afternoon.The movie was slightly spoilt by a couple in the row behind .She was apparently wanking him off , with as much noise as possible , and for the final'e choked on his sperm !!!! and then spent the final part of the movie retching and coughing!!Ahh such happy times
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Wasn't there talk a while back about making the McGee version with SMG in the Alice role? What happened to that?
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Remake shit? Apes, Todd, Hollow, Chocolate Factory? I liked Sweeney Todd a lot but...shit. A new idea would be cool. Jesus.
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AKA Peter Pettigrew. I think he would be awesome, he can do the creepy quirky and physically he looks the part.
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The Russian animator Jan Svankmajer (who was an inspiration for Burton) already did a dark Alice flick.
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Jul 24, 2008 8:52:09 PM CDT
I hope all the characters wear black and belt buckles...........
by crackerfarmboy
And there's gothic statues, Elfman scores, Helena Bonham Carter is in it, Johnny Depp is in it, and every other predicable cliche that Burton puts in all of his half assed films.
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Nolan just made Buton's carrer irelevant, well except for Beetlejuice.
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There are as many white stripes as there are black stripes! And Alice is tailor-made for him. She already has stripes. So does the cat! Stripes!
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If you were a goth-punk in the 80s you were still 5-10 years too late! I keed.
Have you seen the original Family Dog (Amazing Stories short not the shite series)? Burton designed the characters, Brad Bird directed it, and getting to the point, Elfman did the music. I think you'll find the Beetlejuice score in there, too. A couple of years before the film. -
I'll agree he is hit or miss, but I'll be anxious to see his take on Wonderland. I can't imagine any other director I'd want to see do this movie, he's perfectly suited for it. He can't be timid though, he needs to unleash here, let this be the culmination of everything whimsical he's done up to this point.Had he not pulled off the musical aspects of Sweeney Todd and Charlie so well (odd, but well), I'd be bothered by this having songs in it. An Elfman score would be well-suited, but he needs to step it up too, let this be epic.Yes, by all means, keep casting Helena, she's gorgeous and talented. She would make a perfect queen. Someone suggested Rickman for the Mad Hatter, and I can picture him in the role physically, but could he pull off the craziness of the character that Depp could easily lend. Looks like a good choice for Alice.I just hope Burton decides to really go at it once and for all. I don't feel he's over-rated, I feel he has yet to hit his whimsical peak. Don't disappoint us Tim, let that imagination fly.
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