Tuesday, June 23, 2009

"Alice in Wonderland" gets made trippy by Tim Burton

No longer content to haunt only your Christmas nightmares, Tim Burton is bringing Alice in Wonderland to the big screen next March, in some intensely mind-frakking 3D glory. The story is a sequel to Alice's original adventure, one in which she flees an unwanted marriage proposal by following a white rabbit down a hole to Wonderland. Only, she doesn't remember the drug-fueled nap dream that got her there the first time, 10 years earlier.

USA Today unveiled the first character images and concept art this morning, and yes, Alice has been Burton-ized.

Anne Hathaway plays The White Queen, who, in terms of literary motif in Lewis Carroll's Through the Looking-Glass, is sort of the chess queen protagonist — but who, for the purposes of this post, we're just going to call "crazy hot," even all frosted over like this.

Helena Bonham Carter is The Red Queen, because who else are you going to cast to play trippy royalty with a penchant for chopping off little kids' heads?

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