I’ve been a fan of all the Alice in Wonderland incarnations, including American McGee’s videogame and the 1999 TV mini-series, and of course the Disney one ranks as probably my favorite Disney movie ever.  It seems to me that Alice is a public-domain fairy-tale that can be told again and again without losing its unique charms.

So color me just a little excited that Tim Burton is doing his version, coming early next year.  The casting (Tim Burton as the Mad Hatter, Alan Rickman as the Caterpillar, Helena Bonham-Carter as the Red Queen) looks fantastic.  And judging from recent photos like the one above, the visual look appears to be the usual Burton brilliance.  Now let’s see if Burton can actually tell a compelling story for once in his life.