Coal News: Alice in Wonderland Film Remake (2010)

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I cannot even begin to explain how obsessed I am with Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and the sequel, Through the Looking Glass.

And I am not alone. Orville has love for the Carrollian work too.

In many ways, it is an example of a literary work that is nearly perfect. Carroll’s idiosyncratic ideas have come to lasting impacts like his creations of Tweedledee and Tweedledum and the Mad Hatter. I have read the books and watched the Disney version so I am definitely piqued to see what Tim Burton has in mind.

I would just like to also say that while I am excited about the film, I don’t want it to fall into a stereotypical portrayal of the man on drugs when he wrote it thing. That is 100% bullshit. The story came from a brilliant mind. Carroll was a mathematician so he clearly had brains.

The 2010 film will be an amalgamation of both Alice books.

According to imdb, the casting is as follows for now:

  • Mad Hatter – Johnny Depp
  • The White Queen – Anne Hathaway
  • Michael Sheen – The Cheshire Cat
  • Matt Lucas – Tweedledee/Tweedledum
  • Christopher Lee
  • Alan Rickman – Caterpillar

I’m turning into a bit of an Anne Hathaway stan. She has this cool, quirky demeanour to her. Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter will be interesting. I think he can pull it off but I am sure it will probably be the most difficult piece of work he ever has to do because it is a role that in many ways has been immortalised in the Disney version.

So far, I think the casting list looks alright. Naturally taking a beast like AiW is not going to be a joke because it is a classic piece of literature AND it has a massive cult following so whoever gets chosen to be in the film will be criticised anyway.

Tim Burton apparently chose an unknown Australian actress to play the lead role, which was the best move because it is better to have an up and coming actress.

According to the linked article above, the film will….

…be presented in 3D using a mix of live action and performance capture CGI.

Again, it sounds so hard to call. All I know is I am really excited and 2010 is months and months away! I wonder whether Lewis Carroll knew what a phenomenon his classic books would be when he wrote them in the late 19th century. I mean, this story is 144 years old – just phenomenal to think that it is still as quirky and original as it was then as it is today.

Anyhoo, I will be updating the blog with news and pix as the come so stay tuned so I apologise in advance to any non-Alice reading Charcoal readers, but I just love this book so much. My obsession with AiW runs so deep that basically when I get my Balinese cat this year, because I want one, I am stuck between calling the cat I get Dinah or Beyonce. That’s how you know I am an Alice stan!

[EDIT: I have seen pictures of Alice! I don’t want them to post them here b/c I am not feeling brave but they are on the imdb pages. Click here and scroll to the bottom of the FAQ!]

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