The Mad Hatter: There is a place. Like no place on Earth. A land full of wonder, mystery, and danger! Some say to survive it: You need to be as mad as a hatter.

[picks up his hat]

The Mad Hatter: Which luckily I am.

The Mad Hatter

Before I present you with some new stills from the up coming Alice in Wonderland, I have a few things to say (Obviously, I know lol)

Que in Jefferson Airplanes, “Go ask Alice”

Some of the characters look very freaky! I don’t know why I forgot that Tim Burton always does this… he even managed to make the characters in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory semi derranged..

Y’all know my obsession with cartoon animals in Disney/ animated films by now…No surprise when I saw the mouse and the rabbit I made all kinds of aww! and high pitched noises.

Thedailytruffle.com/2009/12/designer-mice-a-must-have-stocking-stuffer/

Crispin Glover, Knave of hearts

The Caterpillar

“Whoo areee youuu?” This guy is quite ugly scary looking… ugly and creepy.. I loved the Caterpillar from the original movie.

Awww, I love mice.

The Red Queen

Off with that scary head of hers ! Damnnn this is one interesting interpretation of the Queen of Hearts! The frogs are soo cute; I’ve had a thing for frogs ever since The Princess and the frog.

Totally obsessed with these next few sketches!

Sketch for the Gnave of hearts

Sketch for The Red Queen

Sketch of the White Rabbit

The White Rabbit

I want one !!!

The Cheshire kitty

Most kitties I love and would run over to go pet, if I saw this cat, I would run away screaming.

The March Hare

Tweedledee and Tweedledum

Frightening. I would of made these twins muchhhh different.

The MAD Hatter

Emphasis on MAD

Progression of the Red Queen’s character

Progressioon of The White Rabbit’s character

Primary Cast

Alice in Wonderland trivia:

• Casting auditions for 250 extras were held in the British city of Plymouth on 6th and 7th August 2008. Requirements were for people with a ‘Victorian look’ and for applicants to have no visible tattoos, piercings or dyed hair. 

• Actress Mia Wasikowska beat out several candidates for the role of Alice, including Amanda Seyfried and Lindsay Lohan, who lobbied for the role. 

• This film marks the 7th time Johnny Depp has worked under the direction of Tim Burton and the 6th time for Helena Bonham Carter. 

• Principal photography of this movie took 40 days. 

• Dakota Blue Richards was going to audition for the role of Alice, which is her dream role, until she found out Tim Burton wanted a adult actress for the part. Ironically, Mia Wasikowska who plays Alice, is only four years older than her. 

• Despite the fact that there have been many other Alice in Wonderland films, Tim Burton have said that he never felt a emotional connection to it and always thought it was a series of some girl wondering around from one crazy character to another. So this is an attempt to give this a framework, an emotional grounding, which he felt he never really had seen in any version before. Tim said that was the challenge for him – to make Alice feel like a story as opposed to a series of events. 

• Tim Burton and Johnny Depp worked hard to give the Mad Hatter more depth and presence than in past portrayals. In fact, the pair swapped sketches and themes for the character prior to creating this new version. 

• According to Tim Burton was it Mia Wasikowska’s gravity that won her the role. 

• This marks the 3rd time ‘Michael Gough (I)’ has come out of retirement to appear in a film by Tim Burton. This also marks his 5th film under Burton’s direction. 

• Johnny Depp, who says that he likes “an obstacle” whilst filming, admitted that he found the process of filming on a green screen “exhausting”, and that he felt “befuddled by the end of the day”. 

• Danny Elfman scored the film to green screen footage.