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Anyone00
12-11-2007, 05:59 PM
LINK (http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/index.php?category=3&id=46213)


Burton To Respect Alice's Essence

Director Tim Burton, who will helm a new film adaptation of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland stories, said that he will stay true to the stories' essence.

"It's just such a classic, and the imagery is so surreal," Burton said in an interview while promoting his latest film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. "I don't know; I've never seen a version where I feel like they got it all. It's a series of weird adventures, and to try to do it where it works as a movie will be interesting."

Burton will also produce the adaptation, which will use both live action and performance-capture animation.

"The stories are like drugs for children, you know?" Burton said. "It's like, 'Whoa, man.' The imagery, they've never quite nailed making it compelling as a full story. So I think it's an interesting challenge to direct."

Filming on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland is set to begin in early 2008. Burton will work from a script by Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). --Ian Spelling

Fascinating :spock:
Azrael24
12-11-2007, 06:01 PM
This is gonna be awesome! :eek:
Michael24
12-11-2007, 06:14 PM
Alice In Wonderland is one of my favorite Disney movies, so it'll be interesting to see what he does with it, for better or for worse. I'm looking forward to this and Todd McFarlane's Wizard of Oz project.
Hanshotfirst113
12-11-2007, 06:39 PM
I'd say Alice in Wonderland on acid, but it's already on it to begin with . If the studio and Burton manage to achieve a properly symbiotic relationship, this has the opportunity to really be great though, IMO.
Michael24
12-11-2007, 06:42 PM
Until I started watching the Disney version again several years ago, I never realized just out trippy it is. I certainly never noticed that... element(?) when I would watch it as a kid.
Hanshotfirst113
12-11-2007, 06:49 PM
Until I started watching the Disney version again several years ago, I never realized just out trippy it is. I certainly never noticed that... element(?) when I would watch it as a kid.

Yeah, well, watching it again as an adult, I'd have to say that it's pretty hard to argue with that assessment even the Disney version is really off-center, and it's pretty normal compared to other adaptations (and I'm told the book). It's definitely out there.
Anyone00
12-11-2007, 06:52 PM
I'd say Alice in Wonderland on acid, but it's already on it to begin with .

Opium actually.
Michael24
12-11-2007, 06:54 PM
Yeah, well, watching it again as an adult, I'd have to say that it's pretty hard to argue with that assessment even the Disney version is really off-center, and it's pretty normal compared to other adaptations (and I'm told the book). It's definitely out there.

I've always been curious about the books, but have never gotten around to reading them (or even seeing them, though Amazon probably has them). I had heard that the Disney movie was as different from Carroll's original stories as the Wizard of Oz was different from it's original books, so that really peaked my interest.
Storm Eagle
12-11-2007, 08:00 PM
Tim Burton bringing a story like this to life should really be interesting.
Lord Dalek
12-11-2007, 08:07 PM
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter anyone?
Anyone00
12-11-2007, 08:12 PM
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter anyone?

Only if they can get Christopher Walken to be the Cheshire Cat.
mookie75
12-11-2007, 08:28 PM
This should be a trip. I'm sold. :D
RedKnight
12-11-2007, 08:36 PM
I loathe to say I have favorites of anything, but I do think Burton is my favorite director. Between Edward Scissorhands,his Batman movies, A Nightmare Before Christmas and Chocolate Factory, I can't recall a single Burton flick I didn't like. Sweeney Todd looks to be amazing, and this should be, too.
Hanshotfirst113
12-11-2007, 08:36 PM
Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter anyone?

Oh, god, how perfect would it be?
Cortez2301
12-11-2007, 08:38 PM
I will definitely see this.Tim Burton should adapt more classics.
Aldrius
12-11-2007, 08:44 PM
"Drugs for kids"?

That should be the tag line.
Hanshotfirst113
12-11-2007, 08:55 PM
I loathe to say I have favorites of anything, but I do think Burton is my favorite director. Between Edward Scissorhands,his Batman movies, A Nightmare Before Christmas and Chocolate Factory, I can't recall a single Burton flick I didn't like. Sweeney Todd looks to be amazing, and this should be, too.


I love Burton, but I must say, Planet of the Apes was pretty bad...
RedKnight
12-11-2007, 09:19 PM
I love Burton, but I must say, Planet of the Apes was pretty bad...

LOL, I actually forgot about that one. You're right, -- but I think that's because the story didn't lend itself to Burton's style. Burton is best when he can be BURTON, -- dark, bizarre, quirky.
A.Magik
12-11-2007, 09:52 PM
Chances are this adaptation is going to have an all-star cast. It's practically traditional for an Alice movie to feature a cast of well-known players: 1933, 1951, 1966, 1972, 1985, and 1999 are among the examples.
Zubby
12-12-2007, 08:12 PM
I've always been curious about the books, but have never gotten around to reading them (or even seeing them, though Amazon probably has them). I had heard that the Disney movie was as different from Carroll's original stories as the Wizard of Oz was different from it's original books, so that really peaked my interest.

I HIGHLY reccomend 'The Annotated Alice' by Martin Gardiner. It's Alice In Wonderland, but fully annotated. He explains all the jokes and references (even the private jokes you wouldn't understand if you weren't among Lewis Carrol's circle of friends). Alice in Wonderland is one of the world's great works of literature, and The Annotated Alice is the best edition of it I've seen.

While you're waiting for Tim Burton's film (which souds great), you should check out the film 'Alice' by Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. Creepy, weird, and wonderful, and truer to the Alice books tnan any other film version I've seen (even if it takes a few liberties with the plot).
Hanshotfirst113
12-12-2007, 09:44 PM
While you're waiting for Tim Burton's film (which souds great), you should check out the film 'Alice' by Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. Creepy, weird, and wonderful, and truer to the Alice books tnan any other film version I've seen (even if it takes a few liberties with the plot).


Damn! Beat me to it! Though, I must say The Matrix has enough references to get Caroll's estate on the phone.
Djm912
12-13-2007, 11:49 AM
He's doing another one?:shrug:

Alright, Tim. We get it. You like to show people how weird fairy tales really are.

Maybe he should do what Jet Li did with the epics. I mean, I don't need to see "Tim Burton to direct Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in a year.
Master Toon
12-13-2007, 12:10 PM
- Is it going to have a dark aura about it?

- Is Johnny Depp going to co-star in it?
Hanshotfirst113
12-13-2007, 03:30 PM
He's doing another one?:shrug:

Alright, Tim. We get it. You like to show people how weird fairy tales really are.

Maybe he should do what Jet Li did with the epics. I mean, I don't need to see "Tim Burton to direct Goldilocks and the Three Bears" in a year.

I don't get what the problem is; yeah, he's sticking a bit too much to a certain genre, but almost all of his work in said genre has been nothing short of top-of-the-line so far. As long as it's good, I'll be on board.