The Bonham-Carter/Burton baby’s name is Nell. Here is an article detailing the reason her parents chose the name.

Yep, good job. She looks like an Oxycontin abuser, I mean heroin addict.

Alice on Heroin should be the working title.

Why is “Alice” on a ship? And she’s too old, she looks like Heather Graham in “From Hell” or Cameron Diaz in “Gangs of New York”. Ugh I hate it already.

Alice is on a ship going home at the end of the film. Don’t know where to but someone on the set said ‘China’?! – Great pictures – are there any more?

eeek looks well good
2010 oh yess!!

Woohoo! I’ll be looking forward to it!

Their baby’s name is Nell by the way and I am sure the movie will be amazing

I CANT WAIT FOR THIS MOVIE TO COME OUT !!!
JOHNNY DEPP, TIM BURTON, all in alice in wonderland…. that makes for an amazing movie

Can he not do a movie without Johnny Depp, the guy’s a great actor and all, but there are far superior actors than him out there and this whole Burton and Depp routine is getting very old. Also, I’m excited for him to ruin childhood stories again.

My little girl was an extra on this set, if the camera had only moved over a tiny bit you could have seen her! She looked very cute too. The whole experience was mind blowing. How they all know what they are doing beats me. We look forward to my girl’s big night out on the day the movie is released. Just hope she does’t end up on the cutting room floor.

I am so, SO jealous.

This was my role. I was born to play this role. I would give anything to take Mia’s place. I would DO ANYTHING to BE Mia.

I am so, SO jealous.

This was my role. I was born to play this role. I would give anything to take Mia’s place. I would DO ANYTHING to BE Mia.

uhm. why do people come on here and waste their time to say how bad tim burton is? WHAT, DO YOU HAVE NO LIFE? ALL YOU DO IS COMPLAIN? SEEMS LIKE IT. anyways. i am overly excited. she looks a tinch to old… but she will prolly rock it. i like tim burton and the tim burton/johnny depp combo. I LOVE JOHNNY DEPP. but anyways. i hope it is amazing! i want to know, though… WHERE IS JOHNNY/MAD HATTER?!?!?!?!?!?! i want to see some pics of him in the movie. i know… he prolly is only gonna be in the 3D part… since he is a rabbit. but still!!!! i want to see him on the set watching! [: so i can look at him!!!!! yeah. he’s hot.

look, the fact is, tim burton is an asshole and a shitty film maker. look at the art styles in ALL of his movies. THERE ALLL THE SAME!!!!! “I’m tim burton look at me, im so dark, suck my dick, i’m so dark.” fuck that ass clown

I am so, SO jealous.

This was my role. I was born to play this role. I would give anything to take Mia’s place. I would DO ANYTHING to BE Mia.

Everyone who thinks Tim Burton is stupid is ignorant and doesnt understand his vision. YOU HAVE TO GIVE INTO THE MOVIE OR YOU WILL NEVER ENJOY IT! You guys are the stupid ones u can’t go into a movie with your thought of it set in stone in your head dumb asses. Burton is a visionary GENIUS everything he has done has such a feeling in every scene in every actor there is something tieng them to the role. I personally would of liked to see Alison Lohman as Alice i think she would of been perfect, but this girl resembles her so it will work itself out. TIM BURTON IS AMAZING AND HIM + JOHNNY DEPP + HELENA BOHNAM CARTER = YET ANOTHER MAGICAL MOVIE!! <33

PS: The Mad Hatter is the man NOT the rabbit, for whoever mentioned Johnny Depp being the rabbit =)

An older Alice was probably cast for artistic reasons: If I’m not mistaken it’s a tradition in the stage play to cast a young adult woman (rather than a child) as Alice just as it’s a tradition to cast a male for the role of the Queen of Hearts.
I have to admit I didn’t like the craptaculously goofy technicolour Disney version at all particularly, as it removed a good deal of the wit and cynicism of the book.
My personal favourite Alice adaptation so far was the Hallmark version, which was not only the only Hallmark film that was actually good (as opposed to their horrendous adaptations of pretty much every other literary work) but the only “Alice” adaptation that got the somewhat dark, twisted “feel” of the book right in a way that I’m not sure even Tim Burton (who is a personal hero of mine by the way) will manage to top, but his version actually does look like it’s going to be good.
As for the people calling him a “hack”: He sticks with a style that he likes. You may call him a sellout just because his style has gradually become more accepted by the mainstream and is nowadays very commercially accessible, but I say I’m glad he’s become successful at what he does, and more power to him.

The absolute best depiction of Alice in Wonderland was done by American McGee.

Why is Tobey Maguire wearing that blonde wig?

2010 is too far down the rabbit hole. Go Burton.

if you don’t like Tim Burton why are you bothering to read articles about his new movie??

personally i think you are all mad! Tim Burton is my hero! He’s a genius! And i love helena bonham carter!! And Johnny Depp – he is way hot!

so give it a break all you losers who just come on to moan.

Whats the point??

Burton is not perfect.. his version of Charlie and the Chocolate factory was horrible

I’d rather see him make Beetlejuice 2 than remake another film. He better cast a man in drag as the Queen of Hearts to give this thing a signature “Burton” touch.

I read the Book.. but if you are gonna make a movie based on the book why on gods green earth would you shoot almost the whole thing in crap o vision and over use the hell out of the CG… and then use 1 guy to be all the oompa loompas.. that was weak… Ive loved a lot of his work but he really botched that one!

I think she’s too old, but I trust Burton. In “Through The Looking Glass” she is desribed as 7½ Years old, but behaves like an older child.

the person who wrote this article obviously has no idea what they’re talking about. Helena and Tim’s baby girl HAS a name and it is “Nell” and if they think she was dressed up as an extra, they’re delusional. She was taking pictures of the set with her camera, visiting the set. She’s not an extra. i love seeing the pictures. but what the fuck. Do your research before writing a Goddamn news article.

Does anyone else think she looks just like Martha Plimpton?
Goonies, Parenthood, etc.

or Darlene from the earlier years of “Roseanne”

Dynamic Duo you say? No, no, no. They are in fact a trio, and I mean of course, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, and Danny Elfman … and I will be sorely dissatisfied of Elfman isn’t doing the music for this film.

isn’t caffeine bad for babies in the womb?

It’s funny to see the posts from the people who think Disney created Alice.

It’s all good, y’all! Alice is pale and perfect! The costumes are brilliant (wouldn’t you love to be the one to sew all that rick-rack on Alice’s skirt?) and Johnny as the Mad Hatter, CGI style, will be brilliant too, as always. TB’s movies make me happy. I can’t even debate the weird, snarky previous comments above….it’s just a movie, people. See it, don’t see it -whatever. HBC’s diet is her concern -consider, perhaps, that she may be consuming caffeine in moderation. And jealousy is a very human, but very self-destructive, emotion. I hope those five posts helped you get it out of your system, anonymous. Persevere, and you may get another, possibly better, opportunity.

Ok, I’m done.
Can’t wait fot this movie!

OMG I am so excited for this movie to come out!! 2010 is way too far away! Johnny Depp and Burton do awesome movies together, with the exception of Charlie (was not blown away by that one) I loved Disney’s Alice as a child and read the whole book when I was older. Burton is the perfect guy to do Alice in a dark way. I love Johnny and can’t wait to see him as the Mad Hatter.

And when is Pirates 4 coming?!?

It’s been confirmed that Tim & Helena named their daughter Nell.

She is on the ship at the BEGINNING of the film before she travels to the garden party, NOT at the end

I’ve done abit of extra work on this film,and let me tell you,it’s going to be fantastic. I don’t understand why people feel the need to bitch about a film that won’t even be coming out for two more years. If your not a tim burton or alice fan,then just keep your small minded comment’s to yourself,or at the very least, till your seen the film.

The reason Alice is older is that this is not going to be a re-do of Alice In Wonderland; it’s my understanding that this is a new story based on the Alice books.

that bitch is no alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tim i have some good ideas for other stories, but act fast before its to late

“The problem with making a dark and disturbing version of Alice in Wonderland is that it’s pretty dark and disturbing to begin with, which gives it little training wheels that help cultural firebrands ride it into geniusdom once every eighteen months or so. Masterminding a trippy reinterpretation of Lewis Carroll is like making a version of Crazy Taxi, only crazy! At this point, about the edgiest thing you could do with Alice in Wonderland is try to make it a little less fucking insane.”

From OLD MAN MURRAY CIRCA 2000 AD

that is all.

Has potential..

Why is Alice so fucking ugly?

Obvious photoshop.

ew….she looks like sarah polley

I rather see him make an “Alice In Wonderland”
the way he made the “Corpse Bride”
I think it’d be better…

I hope he keeps the puns in the script.

to “anonymous:” “the pure and innocent feel of Alice in Wonderland from a child’s perspective, after all what is more important?”

come on, you obviously never read the book…

Tim is not such an ass. It’s ou that are too stupid to like his movies

2- Im pretty much excited for this, Alice will (for sure!) be an amazing movie!

I think this a perfect movie for tim. it’s really out there and i know he will make it just the way the book intended it to be. i’m very excited to see what he’s going to do with it.

ok tim’s so called mutilations. for charlie and the chocolate factory, the problem is Tim Burton’s version is just totally a different movie that Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

Though they are both based on the same premises and have similar plot lines, Tim Burton’s focus on Willy Wonka was a completely different character than the original.

In Tim Burton’s rather than Willy having all the answers, he must learn from Charlie, however in the original the character dynamic is quite opposite.

His adaptation of this should be quite interesting as most tim burton flicks prove to be.

willy wonka and the chocolate factory was a book, and that’s what tim burton’s is based off of. maybe some of you should read a book instead of watch a movie.

Looks quite interesting.

I love his somewhat demented takes on classic stories, cant wait for it!

Im quite excited! To all those who claim that he butchers stuff, its not for you to decide. This is something that I think Tim will add life to. I have a feeling that this will be one of my favorite movies.

at the people who are trashing tim burton. you people dont no horse shit. tim burton is an amazing director who masters movie making. he made a few changes to sweeney tod (wich won an oscar). whats wrong with changing up alice alittle bit? when this movie is praised by millions im gonna laugh my ass of at all of you. you people abviously dont know anything about the art of movie making, you people obviously like films like disaster movie or something. you people just fail at everything.

Wasn’t there supposed to be an adaptation with Marilyn Manson as the Queen? Did it just disappear? I was sorta looking forward to that one, but it’ll be interesting to see what Burton does with this.

Anti-Burtons really don’t seem to understand his movies or where he comes from. He takes well known stories…then twists them. That’s what his fans want to see. If you don’t like his twist on things, simply ignore him.

Nothing cliche about Depp in his movies, they are just good friends that have worked together for years. Just like Bruce Campbell shows up in tons of Sam Raimi movies. Far be it for people in hollywood to have actual “friends” eh? Boggles the mind…

okay, to all of the people comparing tims version of willy wonka to the ‘original’ film willy wonka with van wilder, tim’s version was more along the lines of the TRUE original Charlie and the Chocolate factory by Rohl Dahl, and stuck to the story line moreso than the film done by Mel Stuart. read a book before throwing your criticisms out like they matter. and to all the people saying he’s drawing alice away from the innocent 8 year old girl she was in the disney film, also, based on a BOOK not what walt disney put her as in his view. people are allowed different oppinions and views, and allowed to share them, and i think tim burtons the perfect candidate to follow in Mel’s and Walt’s footsteps.

Holy ….. I can’t wait until this comes out Tim Burton is amazing, and I hope everyone realizes that the the original story was a lot darker than the disney version, that of course so many people will naively compare it too. And whether or not you think who he chose to play alice is beautiful or not, the fact is she doesn’t look like some model or princess or even 7 years old, because this is not based off the disney version where everything is beautiful and fanciful, this girl is real, just like someone you would see walking down the street or at your local coffee shop. Why do people in this culture expect every woman on screen especially maijor role actors to be drop dead gorgeous…what is wrong with someone being real, having true unaugmented beauty…have we as a culture forgotten what true beauty is and now just believe whatever tv tells us too, so that all the cosmetic companies surgery or makeup etc will get more money, why is it that more than half of the entire population in the U.S. is overweight and eats at mcdonald’s all the time but yet you expect beauty to only be women who starve themselves, and torture themselves. What message does that send to your wife and kids? Sorry went off on a tangent but seriously before you start criticizing someone why dont you look at yourself and figure out why you have that point of view, why do you have those beliefs? are they really yours or society forcing our eyes and changing our beliefs?
Which is a major reason why I love Tim Burton so much is that he never does anything that anyone else does(for you nitpickers…he never does anything the way others do it) and he always does things the way he wants to not the way society or culture think that he should, and i have a lot of respect for him because there are so few people in this world that truely act themselves without just going with the flow…

To the person who said that Tim Burton keeps repackaging the same thing over and over again:

Time Burton has a specific style. It’s not everyones taste, but it’s beautiful. The way he uses colors and camera shots are completely unique. That’s like saying Picasso should haven’t painted in his specific style, or that Derain should have said screw the fauves and do something else, etc etc

Nothing is wrong with having a specific style. He doesn’t always tell the same story, even if he stays within similar genres. Alice in Wonderland, Sweeny Todd and Willy Wonka are all completely different movies.

I’m indifferent towards Burton films, bar The Nightmare Before Christmas which I grew up with as a kid, I still love it. I can definitely appreciate his stylistic approach to things. I love Alice In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass and and am very much looking forwards to seeing his take on things (:

I have no problem with Alice being a blonde and i don’t really understand people who do. Tim Burton is a director, whose movies I find are epic! Within the industry, he has done spectacular things and I trust his vision!

Burton is going to pull this one off beautifuly. Even before i heard he was thinking of doing it I always said that he should do his own interpritation of Alice in wonderland. My only slight wory is that as much as i love Johnny Depp, his potrayal of willy wonka wasn’t quite right in my eyes, i’m afraid to say that i think he over did it slightly on the crazy side of wonka and although there is no other man who could ever play the mad hatter in a Burton film other than Johnny Depp I dont want to see any of Willy Wonka (who has similarities to the mad hatter) slipping out in this role.

dude are you stoned?

in the grand scheme of life. what will it matter that there is another adaptation of an irrelevant story out there? why don’t we all just live. why can’t we just be and leave?

I cannot wait to see this. Tim Burton has grown on me over the years. I loved Big Fish.

Burton + Depp = Masterpiece!

I want her coat.

Nan mais respecte Ses Films =O

Tim est Un genie Du 7eme Et Je trepigne d’impatience de Voir Son Nouveau Chef D’oeuvre !

No. It would NOT be better to have another Corpse Bride. I like the way he seems to be doing this. Jesus.

Hopefully he brings out some of the darker more disturbing subtext of the story.
Lewis Caroll was a pretty twisted man.(he molested little girls and had a drug problem)

Somone should feed this pasty faced girl before she shrivels up and whithers away. Give her some pies and porrigde LOL

Mainly to Mr. Phil E. Drifter who said:

Those pics are totally photoshopped, I would know, I’ve seen a few photoshopped images in my day. Those pixelated shadows are all wrong, they totally blow it.

(rant)
You’re an idiot, plain and simple. As someone who actually WORKS with photoshop daily and has seen millions of photoshopped images, not just ‘a few’ as you admit to seeing, I am telling you these are not photoshopped. Those ‘pixelated’ shadows are not there, if I am thinking of the correct pictures you’re speaking of, the shadows are being cast on pebbles and other small/fine/grainy-like sized objects. You’d be able to tell that if you looked at the texture of the surface. Which to some, apparently, can be seen as being pixelated. Possibly, maybe. (/rant)

As for the actual film? I love the idea. Since everyone else has already pointed out that it’s based off the book and to go read that before slamming things. XD

I can’t wait for this movie to be released in the theater’s
Alice in wonderland was my favorite story and when i was growing up and love all movie versions of it i look forward to see how Tim is going to tell the story. And what Johnny is going to do with the Mad hatter!

some people are going to like it and some people are going to hate it. i love tim burton movies, but whenever someone does anything to do with alice in wonderland, i get pissed off.
Alice Liddel (the girl carrol wrote the book for) was my great great grandmother and i cant stand how much disney screwed up the story. She was YOUNG with BROWN hair. i dont like you new alice. sorry

and i cannot say im one of those teenage girls who loves tim burton movies, i’ve only ever seen 2.

It looks beautiful. I’ll be patiently waiting. I love all of Burton’s films and I’m so excited for this….

Wow, sad to see all the haters out there. If you all hate TB so much, why are you still here right now & watching all his movies??? Go watch some other crap like all the lack of plot action movies which make so much damn money. Alice has always been a favorite of mine…classic, Carroll, Disney, Burton…it doesnt matter to the true Alice fans. It’s all about interpretation & imagination. THAT is what ALL Alice stories are based on! Praise Burton for doing something creative & different! He marches to the beat of a different drum which is so very needed in this plastic, untalented world called Hollywood.

I cannot wait for this to come out …i am soooo excited and johnny depp as the mad hatter – PERFECT!!!!!

I cannot wait for this to come out …i am soooo excited and johnny depp as the mad hatter – PERFECT!!!!!

They’re filming 5 minutes from my house yaaaaaay!!!

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
you guys jus need to calm down, sure you all have opinions of Tim’s work but seriously if u don’t have anything nice to say keep it to yourself plz. Thank you

wow. you guys have way too much to say! who has all that time?!
this is going to be amazing. love johnny. love tim. love helena btw! =)
just get over it. you dont like him? well then dont effing comment loser!

I really cant wait for this movie to come out!! I am sooo jelous of the girl who got to play Alice! Alice in Wonderland is my top book/movie/movie/movie, i cant wait to see what ingenius touch Tim Burton puts on it.

Why are people being so cynical about Tim Burton and his fanbase…just because he alot of fans doesn’t make them any less genuine, i understand alot of people claim to Like NmBC just to up their “status” but thats just their loss.=O

Anyway…so excited for the movie, anything Tim Burton touches turns to Gold!! And with the quirky talent of Helena Bonham-Carter and Johnny Depp mixed in the movie is guaranteed success!! =D

i hope jonny isnt CGI cause that would ruin the whole film

I can’t believe that I’m actually writing in on this, but there’s been a lot of time on this page wasted debating Mr. Tim Burton’s artistry, myself now not excluded.

All I have to say is this: you do not have to slaughter a life to sustain yours. It’s okay to dislike a work of art and a series of creative choices. But don’t call into question this man’s integrity. That’s simply mean-spirited. Please take into consideration his accomplishments. Then proceed to measure them to yours.

Whether you enjoy his work or not, Mr. Tim Burton is successful.

Amen to the Anonymous post below.
I wish I had half the talent the man has in his pinky finger! I don’t like all of his work but he certainly has talent and passion. Keep up the great work and thanks for entertaining us. Your gifts are truly appreciated.

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2008-10-30 00:03.
I can’t believe that I’m actually writing in on this, but there’s been a lot of time on this page wasted debating Mr. Tim Burton’s artistry, myself now not excluded.

All I have to say is this: you do not have to slaughter a life to sustain yours. It’s okay to dislike a work of art and a series of creative choices. But don’t call into question this man’s integrity. That’s simply mean-spirited. Please take into consideration his accomplishments. Then proceed to measure them to yours.

Whether you enjoy his work or not, Mr. Tim Burton is successful

I apologize, it was Mike Sheen. Not keaton. my bad!

I couldn’t breath when I heard Tim Burton was going to do Alice in Wonderland. It was like a dream come ture. Alice in wonderland is my most favoret story in the world. I have both books and six different movies I’ve been wanting him to make this movie FOREVER!

Tim Burton is pure genuis. he has the ability to write a masterpeice adn anything he remakes is twice as good as the original. the movies i would like to see him remake are as follows
1) cirque du freak series
2) Phantom of the Opera (although the 2004 movie was spetacular)
3) devil diary (this was a movie on lifetime)
4) anything happy and cherful, change to tim’s art.

it’s my dream to be a script writer for tim burton. i wouldn’t even care if he didn’t give me credit. just to be in teh precence of such genius, is a reward all in it’s self. Of course, how cna i not praise Johnny depp, and helena bonham Carter? personally though, i think Leighton Meester (she plays Blair on GOssip Girl) would make an excellent ALice.

your alll very sadd

This is my dream come true

Wow, a gothic movie done by Tim Burton, with Johnny Depp? Who could do the soundtrack? Maybe Danny Elfman? I thought Mel Brooks reused the same people ad nauseum…sheesh!

People, please note that Alice in Wonderland was a BOOK (author is Lewis Carroll) before Disney destroyed, I mean, made a it a movie. Do people read books anymore? I feel like I’m the only one…Also, those of you complaining that Charlie and the Chocolate factory was a lame remake, you’re wrong. You can think it lame, but it was not a remake of the “original” movie. It was, in fact, also a book (author is Roald Dahl). Burton did an adaptation of the book. Sleepy Hollow was also a book. Burton did an adaptation. Is it so wrong to be inspired by a story one loves and make a piece of art out of it?

And another thing: there are people out there saying that The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride were the same. You are, in fact, mistaken again. Watch the movies again. They have completely different themes. Need help? Here, let me explain. Corpse Bride focused on accepting fate. Emily (the corpse bride) had her chance to marry. She tried to take it away from someone (Victoria) because she was so distraught about it. In the end, she realized her selfish ways, realized that she already had her chance, and let Victoria and Victor live their lives (they were also quite in love). On the other hand, The Nightmare Before Christmas, although Jack gets a little selfish as well and must realize the error of his ways and mend them, does not focus mostly on the love aspect. Sally and Jack realize they are perfect for each other because they both need each other. While both movies have a similar “realize the error, then fix it” idea to it, they are in no way the same. Again, watch them.

(Also, even though Henry Selik directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, it was Tim Burton’s original characters and story. It was still his idea. There is also a book you could read the original poem in. Do some research, people. If you have time to make angry and ignorant comments about things you dislike, then you have time to look something up or actually read something for once in your life.)

j’ai vraiment envie de voir le film!!!
helena! jhonny! tim! a dream team!!!
i read alice in wonderland, carrol lewis, tellement j’en peut plus, attendre jusqu’en 2010!!!
mais que faire?
thank you tim burton.

so many hypocrits on here, I guess everyone is but seriously guys you don’t sound smart speaking evil and not hearing it.

ive always loved the book and im a little afraid for this movie but im also very excited. tim burton will keep the darkness in the movie and not make it so happy and joyful like the disney version, but the disney version it the one that made me like the book even more! i just think it would be better if the movie was animated not with real people because the actress doesnt put of the alice look to me but thats just my opinion.

I thort of tim burton doin this film years ago
sooo buzzin its actually happening!!!

Okay so I don’t really care about all the slander or what-have-you going on but I must say that Lewis Carroll is my favorite children’s author and I love ALICE IN WONDERLAND! I hope if this is a great success, Burton should also do the sequel of THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS. That would be totally awesome.

And Johnny Depp will be a completely sweet mad Hatter! yeah!

I am tired of this art school spielberg taking on timeless pieces and blowing a load of black and white pinstripes all over it. Once a moon I respected old Burton but after Mars Attacks its just a Hot Topic scam. And for all you Timmy fans who need your Nightmare Before Christmas fix know this he didn’t direct it! This is why Nightmare went over well but Corpse Bride was a sham. If you want to see a good movie or one with substance like Alice in Wonderland turn no further than Coraline directed by Henry Selick. This piece written by Neil Gaiman oh and Henry Selick directed Nightmare Before Christmas…Funny.

Ive got an idea why dont we give the movie to a director who knows what he is doing and can use johnny depp properly…hmmmmm…. who could that be oh yeah Terry Gilliam. I mean he did do Tideland, Fear and Loathing, Brazil, Jabberywocky (Wait where did the poem come from oh yeah Through the Looking Glass) 12 Monkeys, Fisher King, Monty Python and the Holy Grail etc… Someone please kill Tim Burton so we can stop having mediocrity incarnate… You had you run in the 90′s so die already like Kurt Cobain… If you would of done that then I could still respect you. But I guess thanks for Ed Wood and Pee Wee’s Big Adventure.

wow, you guys have no idea. Tim Burton is a cinematic GENIUS! his movies like Nightmare Before Christmas and Beetlejuice were masterpieces! His adaption of willy wonka was amazing and Alice is going to be nothing less than mind blowing! Tim Burton is the only choice for an Alice remake. I can’t wait to see this film!

I can’t believe the nerve of some people! Tim Burton truly is a cinematic genius! The movies has made are nothing less than wonderful! He i creative, innovative & just a sheer genius! He just has a way of making a story really come alive. Everything he does with Johnny Deep is nothing less than breathtaking! He is wonderful, I wouldn’t trust anyone but Burton to make this film. & with a wonderful cast this movie will be AMAZING!

to all the folks complaining because Tim is always using Helena, Johnny and even Danny in his films. so what. the critics and the box office point to it being a good team. and that’s the real issue in this business. yep that’s right, moviemaking might be artistic but it is still a business.

personally I love the combination. rarely has anything not be entertaining at least

You’re all crazy. This is not a remake–it’s a sequel.

Everyone shut up, k?
Tim Burton is a LEGEND!!
and Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny depp are AWEEEESOMMMEEE!!!
I can’t WAIT for this film

I am so excited! helena bonham carter is the cooooooolest person alive and johnny depp is incredible and tim buton is a LEDGEND!! I am so excited!! This is gonna be an AWESOME FILM. It will be difficult to top sweeney todd but they will do it AAAAHH

who has time to read all that shit. this movie is going to be bad ass. <3

I’ve always fantasized about making my own film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland, and I never could decide who would be best at playing the caterpillar. Alan Rickman is perfect! I can’t believe he had never occured to me, but I guess that’s why Tim Burton is making movies and I’m . . .well, not. But of course, Johnny Depp was the first and only person that ever came to mind for the Mad Hatter. I actually thought of Donald Sutherland as the White Rabbit for some reason. I think he could pull off the neurotic, fidgety vibe the rabbit gives off.

i think that the actress who plays alice’s character is old!

what a pitty !

OMG If Tim Burton does a great job… he needs to tackle the The Wonderful World of Oz and do the sequels!!!!

I smell Alan Rickman as the wizard! johnny depp as the scarecrow!

cant wait for this movie!!!

Onde estão as fotos do Johnny Depp?!

tim burton always makes wonderful films and i trust that alice is going to be great. big ups to my two favorite hollywood stars. JOHNNY & TIM.

My word, do people ever do any kind of research anymore? Yes, Henry Selik directed The Nightmare Before Christmas, but a lot of the visionary elements were talked over with Tim Burton and he was frequently consulted. Burton had been wanting to do a film adaptation of his original story for awhile. Since he was busy with Batman before Nightmare had a script, he couldn’t do it all himself. He picked Selik to direct it because they share a similar style and vision and Burton trusted Selik not to muck up his work. Oh, and it was Burton’s story to begin with. Now, don’t get me wrong – Selik is amazing. What he did with Nightmare helped make it very popular (Selik’s Slow Bob in the Lower Dimensions is really amazing…too bad he never continued with it). But just because someone else directed a Burton film does not mean it was not Burton’s. Hence the name “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”. But, I’m pretty sure we are all here to discuss the current Burton film, not gripe about films past.

Going back to the research comment I made earlier, people should really think before they comment, unless they really know what they are talking about. Burton is doing an adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s novels Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. It is rumored that this movie will focus on Alice returning to Wonderland when she is older, hence the older actress being cast as Alice. Since the film is in production, a lot of things can change. I’ve seen a picture or two of Depp’s Mad Hatter. The make-up is a little drag queen-esque, but that may very well change (seeing as the movie is in production and everything is being worked on). Other than the make-up, I really liked the costume – it fit the style of the original illustrations form the novel well, as does the costuming in the above pictures, but I cannot make an accurate judgment because I have yet to see any film/acting clips. The make-up may not even be a problem, because, as sources say, all the Wonderland scenes will be motion captured and CGI’ed over (think Beowulf). I am going to be reasonable and declare that, before I make any sort of judgment as to the film’s quality, I must learn more about it and see some footage. Until then, my hopes are high, and I will continue to look into the production of this.

*Dodgson

I hope this film is being made in response to Americans Mcgee Alice being made in to a film…sounds wicked right? until you find out Sarah Michelle Gellar is playing Alice. Does anyone remember her awful appearence in the American remake of The Grudge? Did anyone pay any attention to her diabolical acting skills. Obviously not, because if they had she would be banned from all Horror movies ever. Go back to hollywood.

QUOTE:Lewis Carroll was NOT a drug addict and the book is NOT CREEPY OR DARK IN ANY FUCKING WAY.

Actually, he did opium. He was also a pedophile. He had pictures of young girls and even asked Alice’s parents for her hand in marriage. There was a movie about it…Anyway, can’t wait for this sequel!

I am really excited from this movie, the casting was great. I don’t care if it’s darker, it’s just a different interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. I’m excited to see what Tim Burton will do with it

i am very excited to see what tim burton will do with alice and wonderland. i am kind of a novice when it comes to him, but all of tim burton’s movies i have seen i loved. so i don’t really see why this one should be any different.

“Well I found the book quite scary if you’ve actually read the book instead of watching a waste of a movie u would think this also”

If you are so concerned about people not reading, and watching the movie instead, the least you could do is spell properly, and encourage them to read.

Oh and I would like to ad that in my opinion Burton doesn’t make story’s scary… Think about: it’s not because there’s a skeleton that it’s evil i think his main thing is rather about not being evil. Is someone sad because they wear black, is someone because they are evil? And shouldn’t we all just question the world we live in every once and a while: is all this really right, or just because we where thaught to? And if you don’t fit in maybe it’s really not your fault but society’s wich is so eager to let nothing weird or out of the ordinary break the pattern. But wonder, is the pattern really that good?

This is one of my favorite movies, and Tim Burton is a genius, everything he does is amazing, I can’t wait til this is in theaters!!!

i want to know what the cheshire cat will look like!!!

ok um what the fuck people. i dont really understand why we are fighting on this piece of shit web site. honestly you all act like you know all the secrets of the world but who gives a crap your commenting on a web site about tim burtons next big thing. god you all are so conceited. no one gives a fuck about your opinion. =]]]]

-God bless!

yep,i agree

this is going to be epic. it’s giving me goosebumps.

news check johnny depp IS going to be in it he’s the mad hatter!

I can’t wait for 2010!!!

Can’t wait…probably going to be one of his best!!!…Roll on 2010!!! :D

I love Tim Burton. I like all of his movies. And Alice in Wonderland would be weird for it to be like the Disney version, it’s Tim Burton!!! Watch James and the Giant peach, he made dark, he also made Charlie and the chocolate factory dark, at one point too dark.

~Neon Knitemare’

The movie is NOT based on the video game you idiots.
Tim Burton is going off of the book!

If you want to talk and act smart do your research first.

Have you ever read the Alice in Wonderland book. It’s a very dark story. With Tim Burton doing it it will be as it should always have been told. Pick up The collection of the Brother’s Grim and read cinderla. Her step sisters get their eyes pecked out by birds.

I can’t wait to see this when it comes out. I will be there waiting in line.

To the smart guys who knows Alice is a book, congratulations, you’ve enough qualifications for a primary school application. However, Burton seems to be deeply inspired by the game American McGee’s Alice which was based on the book yet had a darker atmosphere with an evil Alice. Though the game was fantastic it has been underrated mostly. Probably, Burton knows it and thought that its drawings and psychopathic visions suits the story much better than the classic illustrations of the original story.

WHERE IS JOHNNY?
WHERE IS JOHNNY?!

OH MY FUCKING GOD! LEWIS CARROL WAS NOT A PEDOPHILE! YES HE DID ASK ALICE LIDDEL TO MARRY HIM BUT IT WAS EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLAND AND NO ONE CARED ABOUT THAT CRAP!AND SO WHAT IF HE DID DRUGS HE WAS STILL A GREAT WRITER!

I have to admit that i really am looking forward to Tim’s new film, and I know I will probably be one of the first people to rush into the cinema to see it. I have always been a massive fan of his films, and I think the way he uses the same actors in nearly all of them really highlights how talented they are and how well he seems to work and get on with them. Actors such as: Jonny Depp, Helena Carter ect have been known to be quite close to Tim and therefore there should really be no complaints to weather he should continue to work beside probably some of his most talented and hard working actors.

I remember Alice and her sister having a going for a picnic at the lake in a small boat. I can’t figure out what part of the book the above photos would be from. Anyone have a clue. The reason I wonder is the costume she has on, although it is unusual it is not what I expected

I’m excited to see this and I’m not sure if lewis carol was on drugs but it would make alot of since. I think he was on some sort of medication that made him halucinate but i can’t remember if this is true or not because I heard about it in a disscution in my english class. If he was on opium though it would make since, after all the caterpillar is smoking “hookah”. As far as him being a pedephile? i’m not sure i’ll hope in my time machine and find out…also keep in mind that back then some relationships with children were more exceptable. Also their was questions about the austor of Peter Pan so who knows, either way they wrote some amazing stuff. Edgar Allen Poe married his cousin and she was 14, Virginia wolf was messed up too. Their problems didn’t take away from what they did if anything it comtributed to their amazing work. lol btw i know there are alot of spelling errors it’s late and im on break cut me some slack lol. i can’t wait to see this movie it’s one of my favorite stories.

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i dont think she should play alice shes too old like granny two shoes nah but she is to old she was younger in the original and what now shes 20 going on 80
as for the costume it looks like its been sicked up by madonna then ate again two girls one cup styleee but yeh the costume looks to old for a supposed to be young girl

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It’s probably likely Lewis never did drugs (you cn ever know for sure the lives of dead people right?) or at least did very little (not all our drugs were illigal back then. Since it’s never really mentioned he did halucanating drugs in letters or diaries or anything. It’s actually more likly he suffered from whats now called ‘Alice in Wonderland Syndrome” which causes hallucinations and feeling like your body has changed size. It’s thought to be caused by severe migrains, which he did have.

It is actually assumed by scholars that Lewis waas ‘courting’ Alice’s older sister and her governess (who some think are actually the same people) not her. That supposedly caused the fall out between Alice and Lweis.

The older Alice is actually supposed to be like that, because in the movie Alice is returning to Wonderland. I think the movie is based on both the books and video game, just from what i’ve read everywhere.

I’m not sure if this has been said yet, my eyes started to hurt after the first page of comments 0_o. I’m not sure why everyones getting so angry and swearing, if you don’t agree with someone you can just say it but eh, i guess i do that to.

I love Alice based movies so i’m pretty excited about this. You can’t actually ruin a classic no matter what that’s why it’s a classic.

if tim burton makes it any way like charlie and the chocolate factory…then i personally don’t think it will be that great. i loooovvveee alice in wonderland (original movie and book) and i really hope he makes it just as good as most of the movies he has done in the past. i like the fact that he stuck to most of the crew from sweeny todd. good choice in cast…most defintely.

Wow, those clothes are absolutely beautiful. I’m absolutely dying for her boots! I wonder if Alice is going to be more mature, yet again in the book she comes across as a stiff victorian child at points, so maybe this just means the physical is finally catching up with the mental.
I hope this movie is darker…the disney cartoon is sickeningly sweet, and the Alice game by American Mcgee is far too disturbing (anyone who’s played it will tell you that, its messed up, even if it is interesting and awesome! lol).
I reckon Burton is going to produce his usual brilliance! a cute movie for kids with enough of an adult element for the big kids to like it too, and just like his other movies i expect he will make the upmost effort to bring a new take to the Alice in Wonderland story.
I’d love to see how they’re doing Johnny up as the Hatter, anyone have any idea where i can find pics?

Esta pelicula va ser lo mejor todo lo de tim burtons es exelente

She’s absolutely perfect as alice, if you’ve seen her as the young girl in Sweeney Todd you know what i’m talking about, she has the perfect innocence for this completely un-innocent story. hehe, i’m so excitedddddd=]=]=]!!!:D

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You TEASE! A year is way too long to wait.

This is going to be the best movie ever! The best part about Tim Burton is the way he adds the darkness into the movies. you have to appreciate his craft and imagination to understand it. I hope Danny Elfman is doing the music!!! Which I’m going to assume will most likey be the case. I personaly thought that the best part of his Charlie and The Chocolate Factory was when the factory opens up and all those dolls light on fire and Willy Wonka was a crazy wierdo. If you were locked up in some factory and was strange to begin with I would think that would be exactly that kinda of personality you would have. I love how all the background in his movies are chalky dark and have either chalky easter colors or those these vibrant colors it draws your eyes to what matters. It makes you understand the characters or the crucial things. I do not believe anyone will ever compare to him. Not sure if anyone saw Coraline but that movie is so great!

After recently being introduced again to Alice and everything Alice related, due to being assistant director in an Alice in Wonderland play last year, playing American McGee’s Alice, researching this movie as well as Lewis Caroll and everything about Alice, it has come to my attention to address some things:

1. Primarily, the book is what Tim Burton’s new movie is based on, however, he has heard of American McGee’s Alice and is adding some darkness from that. Again, the game was based on the book too and so is everything Alice related, so stop fighting.

2. We all know the characters after our own introductions to Alice in Wonderland. Now we know who’s playing them. You may have different opinions on who is playing who, but face the facts, this is what we have, now we’re gonna work with it. Don’t cuss anyone out, sorry, but it’s annoying. I am, however, glad that Lindsay Lohan is not in this movie.

3. You may want to do some research before you go see this movie. I am right now in the middle of Study Skills. Many of you, including me, don’t know what the whole ship thing is about. Please look it up. I will too.

4. Yes, in the books and the game, Alice has brown hair. The Disney version did not and that has angered some people. Whatever. It’s hair. The actress picked to play Alice in this movie has blonde hair and that’s okay.

5. I have no idea whether Lewis Caroll did drugs or was a pedophile, but we still need to realize that in his time period there weren’t quite so many restrictions on either one of those.

Hey, to the person wanting to know what Johnny’s gonna look like, he’s gonna look awesome. Here’s the link to a video on youtube that has a picture of him as the Mad Hatter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwDeggmq3lk

He looks AMAZING. =)

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OH.MY.GOTH! this movie is going to be the best thing that happened on earth!!!!! well…considering that all my friends call me Cheshire, I suppose its only natural. IM GOING CRAZY!!!! I cant wait! -falls over- If my dad was Tim Burton, I would be bousing off walls right now and begging to see the new actors. I love his movies! Ok…seriously…im going WACKO.

I think the ship is there as part of the background. There’s also some sort of prologues in this version in which there is another girl who is very mean to Alice, so Alice may get thrown overboard on that ship.

I was quite amused and entertained by Lewis Caroll’s book and I find the entire story quite unique. I have seen numerous adaptations of Alice in Wonderland and I am excited for the latest edition.

To the commenter that wrote:
Doesn’t the girl who played Alice in the old movie have dark brown hair??? I think that was their worst mistake about choosing Mia Wasikowska although her looks kind of resemble Alice’s character… I don’t know… I’ll have to see it when it comes out but I’m not sure if I’d go to the movies for it. I don’t really get the boat… but then again her clothes don’t really match the old movie… I think the best thing to do is just forget the old movie completely when watching this one!!

I have always pictured Alice (before watching any movie) with blonde hair. It’s been a while since I’ve read the book but I suppose I may be wrong. With the casting (which, might I add, I am quite satisfied with) I hope this will be a brilliant movie.

to you who posted: “can someone tell me what’s dark about the book? I think your all a bunch of goths and you want to be able to relate to it because its weird but sorry it’s not dark xp It’s ok though cos Tim Burton will make it dark I suppose”

have you ever really read the book or just watched the disney movie? if you read it as a child reread it. it is pretty fucked up and its great! lewis carroll a drug head and mathematican. can’t go wrong with either.

I hope that they trim the Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter scene down to ultimately nothing, then I might be persuaded to see the movie because the Alice girl is pretty

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There are several scandalous and libellous ill-informed comments on this site. Please don’t start this notion (again) that Lewis Carroll and the two Alice books are drug related or drug induced. Its simply not true. There seems to be an increasing trend (particularly in America it seems to me) to make this suggestion, self-evidently, by ill-informed and ignorant people. I noticed recently that Mylie Cyrus made a rather rashly confident statement that Alice was all about drugs. Unless Ms Cyrus has some evidence or insight that has eluded 150 years of intense academic analysis of Carroll and his works, I think Ms “mass marketing” Montana and her like would do better to take a lesson in morality and humility from Lewis Carroll, a pious man that made little money from Looking Glass, pricing it as low as possible so as many children would be able to read it as possible, and giving away many free copies to homes and childrens’ hospitals, etc.
Carroll’s Alice books are beautiful, funny and imaginative, some of the characters are works of genius and the dialogue is sublimely witty, and rightly still considered a classic after 150 years.
I humbly recommend reading an annotated version (Martin Gardner’s “The Annotated Alice” is excellent).
Also, there is no evidence that Charles Dodgson was a paedophile. Many of his child friends’ reflections and memories are published and are usually fond memories or otherwise simply indifferent… there is not the remotest suggestion of anything sinister. I think these comments say much more about the commentators than Lewis Carroll.
On the hair-colour topic, it is the original Tenniel pictures in Carroll’s books (where Alice is undoubtedly blonde) that made Alice a blonde. Carroll obviously had the “real Alice”, Alice Liddell, in mind when he first told the story (Alice Liddell was brunette with shortish hair and a fringe) but never seems to have wanted to represent the physical appearance of Alice in the book as Alice Liddell. Before the story was published as “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”, Carroll hand-wrote the story as “Alice’s Adventures under Ground” as a gift to Alice Liddell and it has her photograph pasted onto the final page. This includes drawings by Carroll himself, but they are black and white and its not possible to conclusively determine Alice’s hair colour, but note that her hair style (long) is not like Alice Liddell. When he was pursuaded to publish the story, he engaged Tenniel as the artist and collaborated closely. Carroll sent Tenniel a picture of a blonde girl called Mary Hilton Badcock to use as a model for Alice, but Tenniel did not work from models. Interestingly, Carroll criticised Tenniel for not using a model writing “Mr Tenniel is the only artist… who has resolutely refused to use a model…I venture that for want of a model, he drew several pictures of “Alice” entirely out of proportion – head decidedly too large and feet decidedly too small”. At no point does he express dissatisfaction with Alice’s blonde hair. So it pains me to say that Disney got
it right that Carroll’s Alice was blonde.
And…the only boats in Carroll’s Alice books are small row-boats. These scenes are presumably from some part of the script not based on the books.
I think Alice looks splendid in these pics and am eagerly anticipating seeing the film.

Everyone seems to forget that Lewis Carrol is a pseudonym Charles Lutwidge Dodgson used when he wrote the book. Dodgson was not only an author but an Anglican Minister, mathematician, and logician. The rumors of drug use are entirely unfounded and there has been no evidence found to support it. Also the only readily available drug at this time was opium which only produces hallucinogenic effects in large doses. LSD was first synthesized in 1938 and its effects were not discovered till 1943, peyote had not been introduced in the UK in the 1800s.
Also the belief that Dodgson was a pedophile is based on missing pages from his extensive diary, his photography of nude children, and a falling out with the Liddel family. The missing diary pages are believed to relate to the falling out between Dodgson and the Liddel family which is attributed to his relationship with a woman named Lorina, which could be either Alice’s older sister or her mother, which one is not identified. As for the photography, photos of nude children during the Victorian Era, were not seen as pornography but representation of innocence, many of the major photographers of the age produced them and they appeared in books, papers and even Christmas cards. The big thing people seem to forget is that we cannot view historical figures as if they are within today’s society, we must view them within the context of their own time. So thusly, no he was not a pedophile nor a drug user. He was a well educated man with an amazing imagination, who combined the two to create an amazing piece of literary work.

Film looks ace only just realised ive got the game that he based the film on.I hope he keeps the set and story the same as in the game, well you know, i mean like to a certain extent, cos like the mad hatter’s meant to be evil in it and other weird stuff.Like the book too, just hope this will be as good as the nightmare before christmas…LOL!That will be impossible, nightmare just ROCKS!!!P.S. since when was alice ever like in her 20s or whatever…in the book she’s meant to be like seven…

um this movie is not based off of any game and especially not of American McGee’s Alice although there is a movie being made based on that game just not by Tim Burton
do your research before u make stupid statements

the one based off the game: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0466663/

Tim Burton’s:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014759/

This movie looks wild. To see more pictures and information on Depp and Burton check out The Campus Socialite!
http://www.precioustimeny.com/blog/?p=1414

I like the fact that this is technically a sequel to the 1951 animated movie. That is why she looks older. She is supposed to be a 17 yr old. She runs away from a proposal and follows the rabbit, again, to Wonderland. The thing is, she doesn’t remember that she went there. I think this movie will be huge, and if not a commercial success, it most likely be an instant cult classic.

Weeeeellllllll throughout the whole book there are references to drug usage and serious mental diseases…. The door mouse is drunk all the time, the Mad Hatter had mercury poisoning, the queen of hearts CLEARLY had anger issues, the white rabbit was on speed, the caterpillar is obviously smoking a hooka, Alice is on i think shrooms or something the equivilant of that, the March Hare is on ecstacy…I can’t think of what the others are on, but my friends were the ones that told me all about that. Let’s not forget, my friends, that Lewis Caroll was a pedophile (my teacher told me that he was in love with a six year old so I have the right to say this)

All rumors of “Lewis Carrol” are unfound and unproven. There were speculations that he was in love with a young girl named Alice, but were never proven. If he was a pedophile, he was a closet one. As far as the book being references: speculations. Just because a critic reads it that way does not mean that that’s what Carrol meant. It’s a children’s book. It’s not supposed to really make sense.

@ the really long comment Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Thu, 2009-05-14 18:03. Hell. Frickin. Yeah! i’m so glad that at least 1 other person isn’t all brainwashed into thinking the book is about drugs and paedophiles. Lewis Carroll was an awesome writer and a good person.

“If he was a pedophile, he was a closet one.”

Haha o alright I forgot its acceptable to be a pedophile as long as no one knows.

Oh. My. God. Thank you to the same long-comment Anonymous person who agrees with me that Alice in Wonderland is not about drugs! I was honestly starting to think I was the only person on Earth who felt that the alligations about Mr. Caroll were not true. I do know, From ym hand written copy of “Alice’s adventures Undergroud” that caroll did in fact wish to marry Alice once she was OLDER!! He didn’t wnat her as a child! And, in fact, he was not on drugs when he told this story to Alice and her two sisters, he was in a row boat on a small lake when the girls asked him to tell them a story. He made Alicethe main character, and the two other girls creatures in the book. I do not believe Caroll was ever on drugs for I have also heard he was a Clergymen, which would go against what they believe. Eveyrone always says that he’s a pedo and was on drugs, but I don’t believe this is true. It annoys me quite a lot when people make these assumptions.

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