Confirmed goth, Tim Burton has long tried to craft a reputation for ghoulish, fantastical work, and seems to be succeeding in securing larger and larger budgets despite his movies only appealing to teenage girls with blue hair and socks on their hands.
While USA Today has called the concept art for his latest reimagining (read: no original material) Alice In Wonderland proof that Burton is ‘attuned to the fantastic’, the concept art released today is certainly pretty, but it seems like we’re in for another helping of style over substance.
All the usual suspects line up for the advance posters, Depp as the mad hatter, Big-Bonced Bonham Carter as the red queen and, natch, Christopher Lee lurking in the background.
On the plus side, there is relative newcomer Mia Wasikowska in the title role, although it’s hard to shake the feeling that a passing resemblance to Winona may have helped her audition along. Still, she’s been pretty solid in HBO’s Treatment, so here’s hoping she can keep the film grounded in reality and prevent too much kooky, ooky, Burtonization from sucking all the tension and drama out in favour of Chitty Bang Bang cutesyness.
Check out the full interactive images courtesy of USA Today.
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What’s wrong with the blue haired sock hands girls?
*thinks of Winona in any film ever*
Nothing. Nothing at all!
Can’t remember the last decent film the bugger made.
Lucas is playing Tweedle Dee and most probably Tweedle Dum as well. He’ll never be as good as the twins who played that cop who stabbed himself through a coffee cup in Terminator 2.
This film is going to scare the crap out of all living people everywhere.
Oh except goths and Nightmare Before Christmas fanboy emos who want to be fiddled by Burton.
Having read Alice In Wonderland, I fail to see what bit will ’scare the crap’ out of people. The bit where she plays croquet?
@ Orbette That’s going to be the majority of the audience. Strangely it seems you can base a little industry arount the desire to be touched up by an aging goth director…
There’s a lot of scope for Alice in Wonderland to be scary. In fact, my brain is telling me that I read somewhere that Sarah Michelle Gellar is going to play an evil Alice in an adaptation of the classic comic book and Playstation game.
Wasn’t noted dick-weed Marilyn Manson supposed to direct that?
probably. It’ll go down well with 14 year old ‘rebels’ in Iowa.
That was one rumourm the other rumour was that Sly Stallone of all people was a massive Lewis Carol fan and so had the rights to Alice written into his Rambo/Rocky comeback contract.
I haven’t read a film mag for 2 years…
Lewis Carol
Or a book, evidently.
I’m only playing. I LUVS U.
I thought Lewis Collins write Alice In Wonderland?
SH – What’s the beef here? The missing L in Caroll? Is that the beef?
Or Carroll.
WHY!