I guess I should ask you all what you think the point of "Alice In Wonderland" is.
Burton (to me) is a horrible choice to direct it. He'll just bring out the freaky nightmarish aspects, as so many have tried to do before him, and we'll all watch it sink faster than Titanic. There have already been 800 versions like that, and they bore me to death (and haven't scared up much audience with that approach either).
I suggest you go back and read the original books. There's a whimsical quality that no film of Alice has been able to capture so far. A satire. A parody of life. The Disney version came the closest, and is the most successful version (in all respects).
Alice is a child, not a young adult (unless she's a moron) trying to make sense of the adult world around her. In her daydreams, we see how confusing it all can be to a child trying to figure out both the world and human nature. It's innocent. Not deranged. Things are not what they should be, and logic doesn't "rule" in Wonderland. The Disney film got it right in the first 5 minutes of the movie. They set everything up that was to follow beautifully. And the pacing was fantastic, where everyone else gets bogged down quickly by trying to add lengthy songs, soliloquies or "fleshing out" the characters, instead of looking at the overall journey.
It's probably one of the most challenging books to try to adapt for film or stage. Many have tried and most have failed.
So if I'm going to just watch yet another adolescent Brit called Alice wander around yet another "dark" freak house for two hours to no ultimate point or understanding of the material, count me out. That would make as little sense as Wonderland itself. I can picture myself checking my watch already.
And I can also see Burton adding some lame backstory about the White Rabbit's father removing all the clocks from the walls, so he's paranoid about being LATE all the time. Good god. And Alice will come to terms with her love and respect for the White Rabbit at the end, and all will be lovely.
He'd better focus on the point of the pointless Wonderland. And the humor. It'll be plenty dark with him at the helm.
"Jaws is the Citizen Kane of movies."
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