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Alice in Wonderland
File:Alice in wonderland Alice.jpg
Teaser poster
Directed byTim Burton
Written byNovels:
Lewis Carroll
Screenplay:
Linda Woolverton
Produced byRichard D. Zanuck
Tim Burton
Joe Roth
Suzanne Todd
Jennifer Todd
StarringJohnny Depp
Anne Hathaway
Helena Bonham Carter
Crispin Glover
Mia Wasikowska
CinematographyDariusz Wolski
Edited byChris Lebenzon
Music byDanny Elfman[1]
Production
companies
Distributed byWalt Disney Pictures
Release date
March 5, 2010
CountryTemplate:FilmUS
LanguageEnglish

Alice in Wonderland is an upcoming 2010 fantasy film directed by Tim Burton. It is an adaptation of the Lewis Carroll novels Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass. The film will use a technique combining live action and motion capture technology. Mia Wasikowska will play the role of Alice, alongside Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as The White Queen.

The film is due for release on March 5, 2010[2] and the film will be released in Disney Digital 3-D and IMAX 3-D, as well as 2-D.

Plot

Years after the events of the first film, Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 17 years old,[3] 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. She runs off, following the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) into a hole and ending up back in Wonderland, a place she visited in a similar manner 10 years before, yet doesn't remember. Wonderland was a peaceful kingdom until the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter) overthrew her sister, the White Queen (Anne Hathaway). The creatures of Wonderland, such as the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), Tweedledee and Tweedledum (Matt Lucas) and the March Hare (Noah Taylor), ready to revolt, wait for Alice to help them. With the help of the White Queen, the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp) and the Caterpillar (Alan Rickman), Alice starts seeing flashbacks of her original visit, back when she was seven.

Cast and characters

  • Mia Wasikowska as Alice. Alice is a 17 year old young lady "who doesn't quite fit into Victorian society and structure." Her return to Wonderland "becomes a rite of passage as she discovers her voice and herself."[4] Alice will evolve over the course of the new film into a more empowered heroine than in previous incarnations.[5]
Wonderland residents
Real world residents

Tim Burton and Helena Bonham Carter's children will have cameos in the film.[27]

Production

Joe Roth was developing Alice in Wonderland in April 2007 at Walt Disney Pictures with Linda Woolverton as screenwriter.[28] Woolverton added a socio-political context to the story.[1] That November, Burton signed with Disney to direct two films in Disney Digital 3-D, which included Alice in Wonderland.[29] He explained "the goal is to try to make it an engaging movie where you get some of the psychology and kind of bring a freshness but also keep the classic nature of Alice." On prior versions, Burton said "It was always a girl wandering around from one crazy character to another, and I never really felt any real emotional connection." His goal with the new movie is to give the story "some framework of emotional grounding" and "to try and make Alice feel more like a story as opposed to a series of events."[7] He also felt 3-D was appropriate to the story's environment.[6] The film was originally set to be released in 2009, but was pushed to March 5, 2010.[30]

The original start date was May 2008,[29] but filming did not begin until September and finished in December after only 40 days.[2] Scenes set in the Victorian era were shot at Torpoint and Plymouth from September 1—October 14. Two hundred and fifty local extras were chosen in early-August. Locations included Antony House in Torpoint, Charlestown, Cornwall and the Barbican.[31][32] Motion capture filming began in early October,[17] at Sony Pictures Studios in Culver City, California.[1] Burton later said that he is using a combination of live action and animation, without motion capture.[33] He also noted that this was the first time he had done green screen.[33]

Sony Pictures Imageworks is designing the visual effects sequences.[34] Burton and Zanuck chose to film with conventional cameras, and convert the footage into 3D later; Zanuck explained 3D cameras were too expensive and "clumsy" to use, and they felt that there was no difference between converted footage and those shot in the format.[35] Director James Cameron, who is set to release his 3D film Avatar later in 2009, criticized the choice stating “It doesn’t make any sense to shoot in 2D and convert to 3D,”[36] Filming also took place at Culver Studios.[37]

On June 22, 2009, the first pictures of the film were released, showing Depp as the Mad Hatter, Hathaway as the White Queen, Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum.[2] A new image of Alice was also released.[38] In July, new photos emerged of Alice holding a white rabbit, the Mad Hatter with a hare, the Red Queen holding a pig, and the White Queen with a mouse.[39]

On July 22, 2009, a teaser trailer was released on IGN. The trailer is from the Mad Hatter's point of view. It was premired on PerezHilton, but was shorty taken down because Disney claimed that the trailer was not supposed to be out yet. The following day, the teaser trailer premiered at the ComicCon but the trailer shown was different than the one that leaked. The ComicCon version didn't have the Mad Hatter's dialogue. Instead, it featured "Time to Pretend by MGMT," and the clips shown were in different order than in the leaked version. The leaked version was originally to be shown to one of the three Facebook groups used to promote the film that had the most members. The groups used to promote the film are "The Loyal Subjects of the Red Queen," "The Loyal Subjects of the White Queen" and "The Disloyal Subjects of the Mad Hatter."[40]

Casting

On casting Mia Wasikowska, Richard D. Zanuck states: "There is something real, honest and sincere about her. She's not a typical Hollywood starlet."[2] Tim Burton states:

"We wanted somebody who had…it’s hard to put into words, but just had a gravity to her, an internal life, something that you could see the wheels turning. It’s just a simple kind of power to her that we really liked. Not flamboyant, not very showy, but just somebody that’s got a lot of internal life to her. That’s why I picked her."[41]

Video game

Disney Interactive Studios announced on July 23, 2009 that a video game based on the film will be released in early 2010 for the Wii, Nintendo DS and Windows PC.[42] An iPhone version is due to be released in late 2009.

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