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Alice in Wonderland. By Tim Burton. Pretty fuckin exciting, no?
I'M sure excited, especially after two things: 1 is that Burton flatly refused Lindsey Lohan's (desprete) request that she play Alice and instead picked an Unknown actress (Mia Wasikowska). 2 was right after I saw the first promo pics for it ( www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/21/first-photos-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-what-do-you-think/). Just the fact that its so CREEPY and, right there, are three actors that have proven their snuff to me as GOOD actors really carried me forwards through any hesitations I might've had.
(Now for a pre-emptive "don't worry".)
But then I found this little blurb: "The film is actually a sequel to the original story, and follows Alice, now 17 years old, as she escapes from a snooty party and follows a white rabbit down a hole, back to Wonderland. The White Rabbit is convinced that he has the right girl, the one who had visited the magical land ten years prior. But Alice doesn’t remember her past visit to Wonderland. The creatures of Wonderland are ready to revolt and are hoping/waiting for Alice to help them, but will she? Can she? I highly recommend you check out the the character promo photos, as well as the concept art in our previous story."
Now, normally this sort of stuff would have me running for the hills. But the fact remains that this is Tim fuckin Burton. He hasn't let me down yet, and the fact that it is this totally amazing and psychotic director taking on a totally amazing and psychotic book like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland makes me have only the tiniest, microscopic bit of doubt that I'm sure will be washed away as soon as the opening music starts. Sequal? Hell, it will probably be one of the best fuckin' "sequals" out there. Plus, people wont have any chance to rip into it by whining "I liked the original better". Now I'll admit that the only cinimatic version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland OR Through the Looking Glass that I've seen was the Disney version. I dont care how much crack or acid those guys were on when they made it, I liked the movie. So I won't have a whole lot to compare it to..... which is good. I'll only have the book, and EVEN THEN I wont be able to compare it much (the whole "sequal" thing is looking more ingenious the more I think about it).
Anyways, the whole point is that if there was ever a director to produce a sequal that would be worth its stuff, it would probably be Tim Burton. Even if he IS working with Disney.
Yeah, sorry, this was a total waste of LJ-space. Ah well.
I'M sure excited, especially after two things: 1 is that Burton flatly refused Lindsey Lohan's (desprete) request that she play Alice and instead picked an Unknown actress (Mia Wasikowska). 2 was right after I saw the first promo pics for it ( www.slashfilm.com/2009/06/21/first-photos-tim-burtons-alice-in-wonderland-what-do-you-think/). Just the fact that its so CREEPY and, right there, are three actors that have proven their snuff to me as GOOD actors really carried me forwards through any hesitations I might've had.
(Now for a pre-emptive "don't worry".)
But then I found this little blurb: "The film is actually a sequel to the original story, and follows Alice, now 17 years old, as she escapes from a snooty party and follows a white rabbit down a hole, back to Wonderland. The White Rabbit is convinced that he has the right girl, the one who had visited the magical land ten years prior. But Alice doesn’t remember her past visit to Wonderland. The creatures of Wonderland are ready to revolt and are hoping/waiting for Alice to help them, but will she? Can she? I highly recommend you check out the the character promo photos, as well as the concept art in our previous story."
Now, normally this sort of stuff would have me running for the hills. But the fact remains that this is Tim fuckin Burton. He hasn't let me down yet, and the fact that it is this totally amazing and psychotic director taking on a totally amazing and psychotic book like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland makes me have only the tiniest, microscopic bit of doubt that I'm sure will be washed away as soon as the opening music starts. Sequal? Hell, it will probably be one of the best fuckin' "sequals" out there. Plus, people wont have any chance to rip into it by whining "I liked the original better". Now I'll admit that the only cinimatic version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland OR Through the Looking Glass that I've seen was the Disney version. I dont care how much crack or acid those guys were on when they made it, I liked the movie. So I won't have a whole lot to compare it to..... which is good. I'll only have the book, and EVEN THEN I wont be able to compare it much (the whole "sequal" thing is looking more ingenious the more I think about it).
Anyways, the whole point is that if there was ever a director to produce a sequal that would be worth its stuff, it would probably be Tim Burton. Even if he IS working with Disney.
Yeah, sorry, this was a total waste of LJ-space. Ah well.