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 Tim Burton's part live action, part performance-capture 3D fantasy movie doesn't come to theatres until March, 2010, but I'm excited to see it already anyhow. While doing press for her new movie “Bride Wars”, Anne Hathaway has been talking about her experience filming her role as The White Queen.
 It sounds to me like Anne Hathaway is very excited about this movie, which only makes my excitement greater. At an Italian Press Junket Hathaway said this:
“I filmed this past fall. I worked for two weeks. I had an absolute ball. I was very lucky I had a couple of weeks to create this character. The thing about Tim is that whenever you are working with an auteur like that, your limits for the character are the limits for their imagination and in the case of Tim Burton there are no limits to his imagination. It was wonderful living in a very creative word everyday, it was odd I have never done full greenscreen before: there was a room four times the size of this room, with ceilings they go three times as high and it’s all green. You feel like you live in a kind of ant colony… a very green one. That was strange… but it was just new. I loved working with Johnny Depp . And Mia, the girl who plays Alice – people are gonna love her portrayal, she is a very exciting young actress… I loved it. I just loved playing my character”.
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At this point we have a pretty full cast for Alice in Wonderland, with two actors at the bottom not yet revealing the characters they're playing. - Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter
- Anne Hathaway as The White Queen
- Helena Bonham Carter as The Red Queen
- Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar
- Crispin Glover as The Knave of Hearts
- Matt Lucas as Tweedledee and Tweedledum
Considering that Michael Sheen won't say who he plays but insists it's NOT the Cheshire Cat, (he swears this on a very recent video here) do we assume that Christopher Lee is playing the Cheshire Cat? Food for thought. One of the things about this movie that has me so excited (beyond the fact that I'm simply an Alice in Wonderland fan) is the great looking cast I've listed above. These actors have created some great characters in the past-in fact, a lot of these have made great fantasy characters. And, they're all a little odd, which is fitting. In another recent interview Anne Hathaway talks more about the creative environment created with all of these people in the same room. “With Helena Bonham Carter, Tim and Johnny, everyone is so mad, and yet because of the atmosphere, no one thinks that they’re insane,” continues Hathaway. “You can be totally angry one second and then totally happy another second, and you can be delightful and murderous at the same time. I know that doesn’t make much sense now, but you’ll see the film and understand.”
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Well, I can't wait.
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