Alice in Wonderland

   “Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?
   — That depends a good deal on where you want to get to.
   — I don’t much care where…
   — Then it doesn’t matter which way you go.”

Since its publication in 1865, Lewis Carroll’s book, “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” (commonly shortened to “Alice in Wonderland”), has continued to capture the imagination of children, adults and artists everywhere. As a result, it has inspired dozens of adaptations in various forms, including cartoons, animated films, feature films, computer games and music videos.

Be that as it may, Carroll fans are still eagerly awaiting Tim Burton’s next feature film: his version of Alice in Wonderland will be in 3D and is due for release in US on March, 5, 2010.
Produced by Disney almost 70 years after the release of its original cartoon, it narrates Alice’s accidental return to the fantastical world she discovered as a child, now aged 19. The White Rabbit, the March Hare, Tweedle-Dee and Tweedle-Dum, the Cheshire Cat and the Mad Hatter are all still there, but the land has become a dark and disturbing place. Alice thus embarks on an extraordinary adventure to put an end to the reign of terror established by the Red Queen and her Jabberwock, a fearsome dragon-like creature.

In this fairytale world, where logic is constantly turned on its head, Alice Kingsley is played by Mia Wasikowska, Christopher Lee takes on the role of the Jabberwock, and Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter, both Tim Burton favourites, play the Mad Hatter and the Red Queen respectively.

“Suddenly a White Rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that; nor did Alice think it so very much out of the way to hear the Rabbit say to itself, ‘Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!’… But when the Rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat-pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat-pocket, or a watch to take out of it…”

Film credits

Director: Tim Burton
Screenplay: Linda Woolverton (based on the books by Lewis Carroll)
Producers: Tim Burton, Joe Roth, Jennifer Todd, Suzanne Todd and Richard D. Zanuck
Production: Walt Disney Pictures & The Zanuck Company
Distribution: Walt Disney Pictures
Cinematography: Dariusz Wolski
Editing: Chris Lebenzon
Music: Danny Elfman
Production Design: Robert Stromberg
Costumes: Colleen Atwood
Costumes : Colleen Atwood