Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland

[BLACK-SPIDEY]

you mean the one from comic con?

DUH!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[mongoose-mania]

Here's a little interview with Tim Burton where he VERY briefly talks about the "love story" rumor between Alice and the Mad Hatter.

http://www.fearnet.com/news/b16089_sdcc_2009_we_talk_lsquoalice_in.html

 

[BestGirl]

That will be creepy. Imagining waking up to that thing smiling at you.

I don't think the Cheshire cat is creepy. He's kind of cute, even with that great big grin.

ETA: So I guess the love story isn't going to happen. Just as well, since so few people could see the Hatter and Alice together. It's also interesting that this isn't going to be a sequel. I suppose it's just a creative retelling of the original story then.

 

[Figs]

My workplace has that link blocked. If that interview is in text form can someone be kind enough to copy paste it please?

 

[Majik1387]

http://www.fearnet.com/news/b16089_sdcc_2009_we_talk_lsquoalice_in.html

SDCC 2009: We Talk ‘Alice in Wonderland' with Tim Burton

Lewis Carroll and Tim Burton might be the perfect marriage of grungy horror and fantastic imagery. We joined a group of journalists in speaking with Burton today at Comic-Con about his upcoming interpretation of Alice in Wonderland. And we found out how he'll bring his unique sensibility to the classic tale.

What inspired you about Lewis Carroll and Alice?

It's not just the books, it's the characters, songs. There's something about the imagery that he created that still plays in people's minds. Anything that has strong dream-like imagery that stays with you is important to gets into your subconscious and creative thinking. I hadn't seen any movie version that I really liked, so the intent was to take that imagery and turn it into a movie… Every character's weird, but I tried to give them each their own specific weirdness, so that they're all different. All those characters in his imagery sort of indicate some type of mental weirdness that everybody goes through, but the real attempt was to try to make Alice feel more like a story, as opposed to a series of events.

What drew you to this narrative?

It's a fairly universal concept, these kinds of stories, like Wizard of Oz or Alice in Wonderland. It's an internal journey. These characters represent things inside the human psyche. So that's what every child does – you try to work out your problems as you go along. Same as an adult. Some people get therapy, some people make movies.

Is this your first time at Comic-Con?

I came when I was a student. There were like fifty people and a bad slide show. So this is a whole amazing, different thing.

When did you read the Alice books?

I read the books when I was a student. I had a weird connection, because I bought and worked in the studio of the illustrator Arthur Rackham, who, in around 1905, did the illustrations for all of these books, Alice and Sleepy Hollow. So I felt this weird connection, to me and the material and real life, and that always helps somehow.

Is this a sequel or a reimagining?

It's definitely not a sequel, because there are so many stories in Alice in Wonderland. A couple books. So the goal was to take the sort of randomness of the book, take elements of the book and make it into a story. A lot of it is based on the "Jabberwocky" poem in one of the stories, which is not a big part of the story, so we're just using elements from all of the books. They don't really have a specific structure.

Is it a love story [between Alice and the Mad Hatter]?

She's just a little girl, please!

 

[Figs]

Thank you Majik.

 

[The Guard]

ALICE IN WONDERLAND, beyond the poetry and the metaphors, isn't THAT interesting. So it'd be difficult to convey is properly in a trailer.

So what Burton's done here...the few glimpses of the way he's taken the original story and expanded on it a bit...that's fantastic.

The Chesire Cat is just...wrong. Creepy and fun at the same time. I love it.

This is a teaser...and it teases. I cannot wait for this movie.

I know someone said they had the script...is it worth reading?

 

[Darkness Falls]

"some say to survive it you need to be as mad as a hatter....
which luckily......I am"

Great line

the movie looks incredible

 

[Catman]

Is this your first time at Comic-Con?

I came when I was a student. There were like fifty people and a bad slide show. So this is a whole amazing, different thing.

Burton was at the 1978 Comic Con. Someone from WB was showing the clip from Richard Donner's Superman where Clark Kent jumps off a window at the Daily Planet and changes into the Superman costume. Some fanboy shouted, "Superman would never do that!" and stormed out of the presentation.

During Burton's 1989 press tour for Batman he often told that story.

 

[Sawyer]

Burton was at the 1978 Comic Con. Someone from WB was showing the clip from Richard Donner's Superman where Clark Kent jumps off a window at the Daily Planet and changes into the Superman costume. Some fanboy shouted, "Superman would never do that!" and stormed out of the presentation.

During Burton's 1989 press tour for Batman he often told that story.

lol Was he that fanboy?

 

[Darkness Falls]

Burton was at the 1978 Comic Con. Someone from WB was showing the clip from Richard Donner's Superman where Clark Kent jumps off a window at the Daily Planet and changes into the Superman costume. Some fanboy shouted, "Superman would never do that!" and stormed out of the presentation.

During Burton's 1989 press tour for Batman he often told that story.

lol t:

 

[Figs]

lol Was he that fanboy?

I was thinking that exact same thing.

If it really was him you know he would never admit it. t:

 

[BestGirl]

Burton was at the 1978 Comic Con. Someone from WB was showing the clip from Richard Donner's Superman where Clark Kent jumps off a window at the Daily Planet and changes into the Superman costume. Some fanboy shouted, "Superman would never do that!" and stormed out of the presentation.

During Burton's 1989 press tour for Batman he often told that story.

What's so terrible about that that it would cause a fanboy to storm out?

 

[GoblinWhirlwind]

Lol, that might not be the best Clark/Superman change, but it's not like he was drop kicking babies or something.

 

[Sawyer]

I don't think the Cheshire cat is creepy. He's kind of cute, even with that great big grin.

ETA: So I guess the love story isn't going to happen. Just as well, since so few people could see the Hatter and Alice together. It's also interesting that this isn't going to be a sequel. I suppose it's just a creative retelling of the original story then.

There definitely is an air of creepiness to the Cheshire Cat, but compared to this films Mad Hatter and Tweedledee and Tweedledum, he's not too creepy.

 

[gap5ewl]

I want to see the Hookah Smoking Caterpillar damnit!

 

[Pfeiffer-Pfan]

I think it's only natural that Disney would want to hook audiences in with a bit of Johnny Depp love first...

He's the biggest actor involved in this movie and has seemed to pull of one heck of a performance.

 

[BestGirl]

Lol, that might not be the best Clark/Superman change, but it's not like he was drop kicking babies or something.

That would be Burton's Superman.

 

[StylishHokie21]

It looks like we'll be getting another brilliant performance from Depp.

 

[The Guard]

What's so terrible about that that it would cause a fanboy to storm out?

Because he literally just BECOMES Superman. There's no change.

 

[ross2287]

Because he literally just BECOMES Superman. There's no change.

I always took it as him changing really, really, really, really, REALLY fast.

 

[Etienne]

Because he literally just BECOMES Superman. There's no change.

Burton was at the 1978 Comic Con. Someone from WB was showing the clip from Richard Donner's Superman where Clark Kent jumps off a window at the Daily Planet and changes into the Superman costume.

 

[Catman]

What's so terrible about that that it would cause a fanboy to storm out?

Lol, that might not be the best Clark/Superman change, but it's not like he was drop kicking babies or something.

Because he literally just BECOMES Superman. There's no change.

He dissolves into Superman. Richard Donner on the DVD commentary said that was one of the scenes they couldn't get right cause they ran out of money.

 

[TheComicbookKid]

That windmill behind the Mad Hatter reminds me of the one from the climax of Sleepy Hollow.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Always loved Sleepy Hollow. Depp is great as usual.

"I saw the headless horseman... HEADLESS!"

He faints like five times, it's so damn good.