I seem to recall a blurry snapped photo of Johnny Depp in this colourful get-up for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland production over at Disney from some time ago, but I cannot seem to locate them in our archives (probably those lawyers a-ceasin' and a-desistin'!). The twist on this version (besides the hefty budget and 3D presentation) is the jump in Alice's age to about 17 years old (*Update, I've since read that Alice is actually making a second trip back to Wonderland as an older girl). The mouse-house (trades-slang alert!) has some buffed-up and gloriously air-brushed promo shots from the upcoming 3D film of Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter Anne Hathaway and Mia Waskiwska (as The Mad Hatter, The Queen of Hearts, The White Queen, and Alice respectively). You can check them out in the gallery (after the Jump).
Worth noting is that the list of supporting actors in this beast has real depth: Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall, Crispin Glover, Marton Csokas, Stephen Fry, Christopher Lee, Michael Sheen, Tim Pigott-Smith, and Lindsay Duncan. Oh My!
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this sure does look like fun. I don't really understand why there's a Red Queen and a White Queen, I guess he doesn't expect to be able to make the sequal.
It sure looks like Disney's giving him a lot of freedom.
My friend Jason Seiler did some of the character design for this movie. Particularly, he worked on Tweedledee & Tweedledum, the Executioner and I must say, the Queen of Hearts looks familiar . . .
I still can't decide what I think about this. All of it is so....predictable. The hiring of Tim Burton as director is so appropiate that it's actually really totally uninspired. I was shocked by how much I enjoyed Sweeny Todd, and I rememnbered seeing a few early production stills that suggested that Burton would continue in a similar vein as far as art direction, more of gritty, neo-realist victorian gothic look.
There's still hues of that, But here we are, back to the slanted angles and black pinstripes. Tim Burton has become a parody of Tim Burton anymore, his vision has long since become a one note joke, a crutch which he hasn't been able to lay down.
What's happened since Ed Wood? Tim Burton the auteur, not Tim Burton, the hack. Big Fish was insepid, a nostalgic demo reel images with a sloppy, forest gump sacchrine story.
You can almost pinpoint the fall of Burton's career with the divorce of Shirley Thompson. Since then, he's dated models and actresses and directs hollow, passionless adaptations with all of the signature Burtoneque flair. And anymore, even most of that is designed by art departments paid to imulate what made him famous twenty years ago.
Indiemaker0583,
you don't need to be such a Burton sycophant! Speak your mind, why don't you.
As you said, Sweeney Todd was surprisingly decent and there are other snippets left-and-right which show Burton hasn't lost it alltogether.
But I seriously cannot tell what inspires him these days. When I saw that Depp image I thought oh no...
And "Alice"? That in itself is a bit of a dead story I think, flogged to death with many different interpretations. What will we get now: a weirder caterpiller? Rotten teeth on the Cheshire Cat? I cannot see how Burton can make this one even a tiny bit surprising...
OK I know I'm gonna get a ton of hate for this, but am I like the only man on the face of the earth who's tired of Johnny Depp? I've been watching him play effeminate British dudes every other movie for the past twenty years! I just don't understand why the sight of him mincing around in a trailer can melt a million panties and turn grown men into screaming women. The guy is in his 40s and he wears enough make-up and jewelry to be Naomi Campbell. Tim, baby, we get it. You're in love with the dude. Enough already. Look, I don't hate the Deppster, I just can't seem to get away from him! Besides he just looks like Elijah Woods in this flick! Look him up, tell me I'm wrong. I think the next character Depp should play is The Human Torch, eh? Flame On!! Let the hatred wash over me.