Tim Burton has finally cast the lead in his long gestating live-action Alice In Wonderland project for Disney. There were recent rumors concerning who he had cast, but those rumors were proven false when it was announced that a little known Australian actress by the name of Mia Wasikowska would be taking on the lead role of Alice.
Mia Wasikowska isn’t exactly a household name right now, but there’s reason to think she might be before long. I personally haven’t seen her in anything although she has appeared on HBO’s In Treatment. However, that’s about to change as Alice In Wonderland is just her latest role in a big movie, not her only. Wasikowska will also be appearing in the upcoming films Defiance with James Bond himself, Daniel Craig, and in Amelia, the Amelia Earhart biopic starring Hilary Swank, Ewen McGregor, and Richard Gere.
I’m assuming the 18-year-old Wasikowska will be playing a slightly younger Alice in Burton’s film. Alice In Wonderland will be a combination of live-action and motion-capture animation (think Beowulf) and will be released in digital 3-D. The adaptation Burton is going with was written by Linda Woolverton who wrote The Lion King then mostly took time off to spend her money (I’m just guessing she spent her money - I really have no idea what she did).
Alice In Wonderland is set to start filming in November for a 2010 release.
Mia Wasikowska, however, will be appearing soon in a theater near you.
Tim Burton is starting to remind me of Ben Lynus… the dude is creepy and has wierd takes on stories…. I'll never see this….
I just checked, and…yup, I'm totally over Tim Burton.
I think he has an interesting slant on things, but he's gotten too big for his britches and doesn't have anyone reigning him in. When his films are 100% Tim Burton visions, they kind of gross me out a little. Even re-watching the Batman films gives me that feeling.
The only Burton work I can think of that doesn't do that to me is Big Fish. I don't know what got into him with that one, but that was one beautiful movie, IMO. If he can do Wonderland like that, then I'm in. But if it's at all dark, I'm out.
I liked his take on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. I'll see it, maybe.