After a long search to fill Alice's shoes, Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is about to walk through the looking glass in Tim Burton's take on Lewis Carroll's classic fantasy novel
Alice in Wonderland for Walt Disney Pictures.
According to
The Hollywood Reporter, the film is based on a script by Linda Woolverton (
The Lion King) and will be shot with live-action and performance-capture footage to be presented in Disney Digital 3-D.
Principal photography will begin in November.
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Johnny Depp is to play the Mad Hatter in a new version of 'Alice in Wonderland'. The 'Sleepy Hollow' actor is teaming up with director Tim Burton again for the movie, a re-imagining of the classic children's tale. A source said: "Tim has had designs on 'Alice in Wonderland' since before he was famous. He has a knack for turning what seems like stories for just kids into gripping, spooky fables loved just as much by adults. He's held out on doing 'Alice' until he got a big enough budget. Now this film is financed by Disney so money won't be a problem." The movie - which is scheduled for release in 2010 - will be the seventh time Johnny and Tim have worked together. They have previously collaborated on 'Edward Scissorhands', 'Ed Wood', 'Sleepy Hollow', 'Charlie and the Chocolate Factory', 'Corpse Bride' and 'Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street' Disney produced an animated version of 'Alice in Wonderland' in 1951.
I hope he stays incredibly true to the source material, lots of bright colors and language that Americans are too dumb to understand.