Filmmaker Tim Burton is in production on a film based on Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass. Burton, director of Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Sleepy Hollow, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and other successful fantasy films, is using digital manipulation of real-life actors and actresses to recreate the inhabitants of Wonderland, such as the Mad Hatter (Burton regular Johnny Depp), the Red Queen (Helena Bohnam-Carter), the Cheshire Cat (Stephen Fry), the Jabberwock (Christopher Lee, a superb choice), and Tweedledum and Tweedledee (both played by Matt Lucas (Little Britain). The film has Alice (Mia Wasikowska, Defiance) returning to Wonderland as a teenager. Given that Burton said he chose Wasikowska because she has a "certain kind of emotional toughness," and putting that together with the director’s track record and the use of a significantly older protagonist than in the books, it’s likely that this new version of the story will be much darker, disturbing, and grotesque (as opposed to Carroll’s charming use of the bizarre) than Carroll’s books and the various film and theatrical versions. Judging by Burton’s previous work, the film is also likely to be interesting, inventive, cinematically smart, visually arresting, emotionally affecting, and quite

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