Watch the new Alice trailer
When it comes to classic English literature, the number of dragons can probably be counted on the fingers of one hand. There’s The Hobbit, of course and Beowulf, but not, up until now at least, Alice in Wonderland.
Nobody seems to have told Tim Burton, however, on this account that keep an eagle organ of vision on the modern trailer for the US film-maker’s 3D adventure and you’ll be able to spot a giant wyrm sitting atop a ruined castle in the final frames. Brad Brevet of the Rope of Silicon blog has natural captured it as a still, here.
- Alice in Wonderland
- Production year: 2010
- Country: USA
- Directors: Tim Burton
- Cast: Alan Rickman, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Mia Wasikowska, Stephen Fry
- More steady this film
It’session already been established that Burton is playing fast and loose with Lewis Carroll’s 1865 novel, of course. It features events and characters from both Alice in Wonderland and close Through the Looking Glass, and centres on a 17-year-old Alice’s return to the world of the Mad Hatter and the Cheshire Cat after many years away.
The modern trailer gives us our first glimpse of the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen), the Jabberwock (Christopher Lee), Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Matt Lucas) and the cat (Stephen Fry) in lawsuit, and also features an extended helping of Johnny Depp as the Hatter. Is it me or is he doing one of his overly-studied, spurious “English” expressions again? Never mind “a place like no place on Earth”, at what place forward the planet do people speak equal that?
It’s not long a little while ago until Alice in Wonderland arrives – March 5 to be precise. Are you looking forward to it? And does it bother you that Burton seems to be way out upon the body the leftfield with this one?
