ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tim Burton Making 3-D Alice in Wonderland for Disney Comments

Tim Burton Making 3-D Alice in Wonderland for Disney

by Jeff Giles | November 16, 2007

Summary

He's already taken filmgoers to Sleepy Hollow and into Willy Wonka's factory -- and now, Variety reports, Tim Burton will team up with Disney to give audiences a new take on Alice in Wonderland. Back to Article

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calbear526 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 07:18 AM

Nice to see.

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Elixor writes:
on Nov 16 2007 07:36 AM

I'll be looking forward to this whether it's typical Tim Burton style or not.

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Pleasuretown writes:
on Nov 16 2007 08:04 AM

I love Tim Burton!
This should be interesting.

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Warheart1188 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 08:17 AM

This is the best news all month

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kungfu_sage writes:
on Nov 16 2007 08:49 AM

I love Tim Burton, I just hope they don't totally disney his vision, like that whole dentist ending of willy wonka

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dracus writes:
on Nov 16 2007 08:55 AM

So, what role will Johnny Depp play?

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blank blank writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:04 AM

ive been yelling up this tree for years, burton should make wizard of oz and alice in wonderland live action. i'll take 3D though... hopefully he makes it a little scarier

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Whipwrek writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:06 AM

I'd wager that if Disney are willing to re-release an extended frankenweenie (which they originally thought was too scary) they won't totally "disney-a-fy" his vision.

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DragonRift writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:26 AM

Actually, I would've preferred Burton to tackle American McGee's Alice, since that's more his natural style. Ah well, we shall see how this turns out.

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Jhall4334 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:31 AM

I am looking forward to this especially because Alice in Wonderland Tim Burton = Complete and total mind *****.

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davenh writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:37 AM

I'm thinking Depp as Cheshire. And how about Helena Bonham Carter voicing Alice?

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BrianInSD writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:55 AM

As cool as this will probably be, I can't help but wish Burton would stop with the re-imaginings already. Of his last 6 movies, only 2 (Corpse Bride & Big Fish) have been based on stories not been previously filmed.

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walkingdead09 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 10:16 AM

I'd like to state that aside from the new batman I think burtons batmans were the best.

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OAKTREELIVE writes:
on Nov 16 2007 10:19 AM

Cool news, although I'm disappointed he didn't do Believe it or Not, and why is he re-doing Frankenweenie anyway? Oh well, interesting to see him reunite with Disney after all this time.

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dahluzz writes:
on Nov 16 2007 11:04 AM

anybody else going to this tripping balls and assuming they'll never find their way back up the rabbit hole?

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moviemonkey2 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 11:13 AM

Urk. Such mixed feelings. I love Burton, but hate the MoCap. I love Disney's Alice in Wonderland, but I hate remakes/reboots.

Not sure that Frankenweenie really needs to be brought back though. That was kind of okay for a short film. I dunno if I could stand a full 2 hours of Frankenweenie though.

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Sparky4Life writes:
on Nov 16 2007 11:16 AM

I love Tim Burton! I can't wait to see his "vision" of Wonderland. It should be nicely demented.

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aka_nympho writes:
on Nov 16 2007 11:31 AM

Very cool! Hopefully Disney gets on it's game and makes their 3-D movies look better than they have. So far Nightmare Before Christmas and Meet the Robinsons has been a disappointment.

If they can bring it up to the caliber of Beowulf, I think they'll be good to go

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BrianInSD writes:
on Nov 16 2007 11:48 AM

In reply to this comment (#1280620)
"I dunno if I could stand a full 2 hours of Frankenweenie though."

Good point. I seem to remember the original struggling to find enough story to fill 30 minutes. Given the current trend in remakes, the new version will probably spend an hour delving into the dog's backstory so the audience can discover just why he became Frankenweenie.

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DiscoDan writes:
on Nov 16 2007 11:54 AM

Super exciting! I love me some Alice in Wonderland!

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arendr writes:
on Nov 16 2007 12:11 PM

Not sold on motion capture movies at all. Beowulf just looks like a video game cutscene. The animation doesn't look impressive to me at all. Maybe it works in 3D, but I haven't seen it yet.

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mouse_clicker writes:
on Nov 16 2007 12:26 PM

Bleh. With the exception of the exquisite Big Fish, Tim Burton has pounded his style to death on the same types of movies over and over again. He's like a slightly more versatile Wes Anderson. But I question why we need a new Alice in Wonderland. The original is my favorite Disney movie, and I honestly don't see what they can add. Tim Burton will probably just mash in his usual style, making that, while good, will be much more Burton and not enough Wonderland. (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory anyone?) Plus, why this obsession with CG motion capture? Visually they look like crap, like puppets that the director thinks the audience will stupidly accept as real people. Just pick a visual style and stick with it. Hell, it could even be puppets, as long as you're not trying to pass them off as people.

Ugh, this disappoints me greatly. I can already seeing the goth kids jizzing their pants over it.

-Moses

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CGHJ writes:
on Nov 16 2007 12:27 PM

I won't lie, I'm looking forward to seeing it already. It's the kind of thing that makes you think, "Of course!" but I do have to agree also that it would be nice to see him do a higher ratio of new stuff. And I'll take it however I can get it but if there's any story I'd like to see him do animated in the style of nightmare/Bride it would be this one. Don't know about

Frankenweenie...I trust Tim but I'm wary of people that want to stretch things out. It was probably short to begin with for a reason. But who knows, maybe he had this awesome idea about how to do it and when we see it we'll understand.

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Demon Hunter777 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 12:28 PM

This looks very good on paper. A twisted, darker version of Alice, sounds like money to me. I don%u2019t have any problem with a Tim remake or reboot, as long as it%u2019s not another Planet of the Apes!!!

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Floor Man writes:
on Nov 16 2007 12:52 PM

In reply to this comment (#1279997)
Couldn't have said it better. :) I'm sooo excited for this.

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RainNIU writes:
on Nov 16 2007 12:52 PM

I'm actually kind of psyched to see this. I'd love it if me makes it a good mix between the old Alice in Wonderland and American McGee's Alice (which was, by far, the best take on the Alice story).

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rgallitan writes:
on Nov 16 2007 01:15 PM

Eh.... Burton has pretty much a zero success rate on reimaginings. I guess a lot of people liked Sleepy Hollow, but I didn't. And, okay, to be fair, his Batman films count as reimaginings, and they were strong if not perfect efforts. But Alice is very similar in tone to Willy Wonka - what reason do we have to think he's learned his lesson since then?

And I'll tell you a big part of the problem - Danny Elfman. Elfman's spunk and creativity has dropped off a cliff these last ten years. He's gotten so homogeneous he may as well not bother recording new tracks anymore. Corpse Bride was kindof a misfire in other ways as well, but far, far and away the biggest problem was how bland all the songs were. Even Nightmare got confused by itself in the second act, but the brilliant music made it a classic anyway. Either dig the old Elfman out of whatever pit he's hiding in, or get another composer.

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therereturn writes:
on Nov 16 2007 01:47 PM

In reply to this comment (#1280756)
Uh, excuse me? Nightmare Before Christmas wasn't originally filmed in 3d, they just did the best they could with the new technology. And I'm not sure if you saw it, or where you saw it, but Nightmare is pretty much badass.

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Crusader07 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 01:56 PM

COOL

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fletch1076 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 02:54 PM

Wow, who didn't see this coming. Can't wait to same that same stupid tree he has in every one of his movies. he is the most overrated director going. All of his movies are shot the exact same way. Stop resting on past accomplishments.

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BrianInSD writes:
on Nov 16 2007 03:09 PM

In reply to this comment (#1280927)
I agree with you on Danny Elfman but I think the directors he's working with may be largely to blame. It seemed like, after Batman, Elfman was commissioned to score every single comic book movie Hollywood cranked out. I can just imagine the directors explaining their amazingly original visions for the music: "Remember that thing you did in Batman? How about something like that?"

Elfman needs to never score another comic book movie and be hired by a director who will challenge him. And, after scoring all but one (Ed Wood) of his movies, Elfman may even want to consider parting ways with Tim Burton...for both their sakes.

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Wallcloud writes:
on Nov 16 2007 03:11 PM

Yay!!! Burton should use Keaton AND Depp, that would be siiiiiickkkkkk!!!

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minderbinder writes:
on Nov 16 2007 03:25 PM

These both sound pretty cool.

While I'm not a fan of the mocap the way Zemeckis does it, it was incredible for things like Gollum and Davy Jones. If Alice is a combo of mocap and live action, hopefully that means that the people will be filmed and the mocap will just be for the wacky creatures.

Really, the biggest problem with the mocap in things like Beowulf is using it for normal looking people. If they only use it for bizarre non-human characters, it could be great.

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rgallitan writes:
on Nov 16 2007 06:18 PM

In reply to this comment (#1281265)
I WISH they'd ask him to make it sound like Batman. Or Beetlejuice, or anything else from his vintage years when he actually used MELODIES. Elfman used to be fantastic with melodies. These days it's all the same set of idiosyncratic rhythmic variations ala Men in Black. Which was cool the first couple times, but lay off already!

Okay, but you may still have a point about directors. Or producers, or somebody. Melody in general is dying in Hollywood. Maybe it's going out of fashion. But that's not completely it. John Williams is still pretty melodic, and yet he's also been on a downward spiral toward homogeneity. Maybe directors have just forgotten how to talk to composers. Maybe filmmaking is changing stylistically in ways that are not conducive to good score. And maybe there's something about the business structure these days that's hard on composers, or locks out new blood. But it seems like a generation of great musical talent is fading out, and I don't see anybody rising to take their place. It's very depressing. I collect scores, you see, but I haven't bought anything new for a long time. There's just nothing thrilling anymore.

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FireflyFan4evr writes:
on Nov 16 2007 08:02 PM

I wonder where Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter will fit into Alice. This could be exceptionally good- and incredibly twisted. Count me in until proven otherwise.

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VenomGGXX writes:
on Nov 16 2007 09:55 PM

I thought Wes Craven was doing American Mcgees alice though
Oh well, we'll have two Alice remakes, I guess

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Caponis writes:
on Nov 16 2007 10:39 PM

In reply to this comment (#1280568)
I'm with ya on that.

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kissman24 writes:
on Nov 16 2007 10:51 PM

THIS I am excited about!! In my own 'Wonderland', I would cast Depp and Marilyn Manson in this film.

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LukeSwatch2 writes:
on Nov 17 2007 05:06 AM

FRANKENWEENIE!!!!

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phoenixphire24 writes:
on Nov 17 2007 08:05 AM

Awesome! Alice in Wonderland is my favorite book and Burton my favorite director. Lets hope Disney lets him do what he wants (within reason since I assume this will be a kids movie).

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rt_hire_me writes:
on Nov 17 2007 11:47 AM

Remember when Terry Gilliam made Fisher King and it was not only off-beat but so moving it made your head hurt to keep from crying? I'm waiting for Burton's Fisher King. Alice and Wonderland ain't it.

What we need is a lizard with a ladder... Bill!

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IMAmoose24 writes:
on Nov 17 2007 12:27 PM

TRIPPPPY.

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p0pnfresh2002 writes:
on Nov 18 2007 12:43 AM

Well after seeing Beowulf in 3D Alice should be great! If the do the beginning in live action and then switch over it should still look good because the trailer for Brendan Fraiser's journey to the center of the world is live action 3d and it looked awesome!

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pamerella writes:
on Nov 21 2007 09:17 AM

Cool, ld like to see that girl on the cover from jordan smiths version of Alice,done by Tim Burton, its a graphic novel called 'Alice in Sunderland' by Bryan Talbot.

check out jordan's work at myspace.com/darkview

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pamerella writes:
on Nov 21 2007 09:28 AM

cool

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Sundaysmile03 writes:
on Nov 22 2007 01:36 PM

In reply to this comment (#1280017)
HAHAHAHAHA!

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Corallyn Movie Nerd writes:
on Nov 23 2007 11:30 PM

O MY THIS IS AMAZING TIM BURTON ALICE AND WODERLAND= ME HAPPY
I HOPE IT LIVES UP TO IT'S EXPETATIONS

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Corallyn Movie Nerd writes:
on Nov 26 2007 07:45 AM

so i cant wiat for alice in wonderland dosent it come out somtime in early 2010. i also herd that alice in wonderland dosent start till 2008 and itll problay be done somtime in late may 2009 i realy dont know though

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Dalt writes:
on Dec 05 2007 07:23 AM

Very interesting. I have yet to see Frankweenie so I really can't share my opinion on that but I do think Burton's Alice in Wonderland will be delightful. I was kind of waiting for this to happen. Let's see how it goes.

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Dalt writes:
on Dec 05 2007 07:25 AM

Very interesting. I have yet to see Frankweenie so I really can't share my opinion on that but I do think Burton's Alice in Wonderland will be delightful. I was kind of waiting for this to happen. Let's see how it goes.

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Luna's Ceiling writes:
on Dec 09 2007 07:55 AM

Two words to make Burton's "Alice" brilliant:

Evanna Lynch.

Don't know if it's possible (her shooting schedule for "Half Blood Prince" may interfere), but I can't imagine anyone more perfect.

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JMPerri writes:
on Jan 16 2008 01:59 AM

In reply to this comment (#1280112)
Hmmm, I agree he would do well as the Cheshire Cat but I'd be interested in see what he would do with the Mad Hatter.

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JMPerri writes:
on Jan 16 2008 02:00 AM

In reply to this comment (#1280112)
Hmmm, I agree he would do well as the Cheshire Cat but I'd be interested in see what he would do with the Mad Hatter.

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michizee writes:
on Feb 20 2008 05:39 AM

In reply to this comment (#1280112)
I think that Zooey Deschanel should be Alice. I love her, and think she would suit Burton's style!!!

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jennabug26 writes:
on Feb 24 2008 06:29 PM

i saw someone mention that Burton should tackle McGee's Alice and that would be awesome, especially seeing as McGee's Alice is currently in production...perhaps he should try to hop on board that train :) For anyone who doesnt know, apparently its due out sometime this summer and its starring Sarah Michelle Gellar, who is actually rumored to own the film rights, as Alice.

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Toodles1823 writes:
on Mar 03 2008 08:58 AM

It'd be great if we could see certain people as characters...
Johnny Depp: The mad hatter
Helena Bonham Carter: The queen of hearts
Verne troyer: the king of hearts
The girl who played Luna lovegood: Alice
Not really sure of the white rabbit.... can't think of anyone off the top of my head. Any suggestions?

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loves2spoolge writes:
on May 21 2008 07:50 PM

yeah an acid trip without the acid n jhonny depp will prolly play chesire cat or that tea party person what ever all i no is im going baked so yeahhhh
blow is the best movie ever

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DaniellinMacaoidgh writes:
on Oct 12 2008 02:03 PM

If you haven't seen the news already- Johnny Depp will be the mad hatter, and Helena will be the Red Queen (aka queen of hearts) Anne Hathaway is also in this.

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Amber C. writes:
on Nov 27 2008 09:59 PM

omg can't waitt !!!!!

johnny depp as the mad hatter, should be awesomee

i love tim burton but lets hope that disney doesn't screw up the nagle he's gunna go for

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Jacob B. writes:
on Nov 29 2008 08:47 PM

I hope he doesn't ruin it like he did to Sweeney Todd. Actually, the fact he is even making it is ruining it already. And he should consider casting actors other than Helena Bonham Carter and Johnny Depp, every frickin time. They aren't that good!!!!!!!!

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