Only a matter of time…
We knew it! It was only a matter of time until the third member of the Holy Trinity Of Wacked Out Movies joined the cast of Alice in Wonderland! Sleeping with the director has it’s perks, after all! It’s finally been announced that Helena Bonham Carter WILL be joining hubby director Tim Burton and our beloved pretend husband Johnny Depp in Alice In Wonderland - filming now.
Helena will be taking on the role of the Red Queen for the film. That’s not the Queen of Hearts, for those purists, but a different character all together from the sequel. Seems that, like many adaptations, Burton is taking bits and pieces from both works to place into a single film.
Now that we know Helena is on board to play the Red Queen - who is the White Queen? None other then the always elegant Princess herself, Anne Hathaway! Anne has already done well with royalty roles, such as from the Princess Diaries, and we think she is perfect to play the benevolent monarch to be deposed and banished by Bonham-Carter’s Red Queen. The White Queen needs Alice (played by Mia Wasikowska) to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch.
The movie, filming now in LA, will use a combination of performance-capture imagery, (like the oh so sexy Angelina Jolie et. al. in “Beowulf”) with live-action footage to create a uniquely awesome rendition of the classic tale.
It will TOO be awesome! I declare it so! How could it not be with the always creatively different Holy Trinity of Wackiness involved? I wonder if Anne knows what she’s gotten herself into…
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