The Red Queen Makes Her Move in New Trailer for Alice in Wonderland
Posted 12.16.09 by reelz
A new trailer for Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland is out, full of lush imagery and all sorts of hints about the direction of the plot. The Alice story has been around for more than a century, but as we can see here, Burton has his own take on it, and is whimsically reassembling choice bits of Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass into his own unique concoction, which from the look of this impressive trailer might well be labeled "Drink Me."
As previously hinted, this is the story of Alice's return to Wonderland, where things have gone a bit sour. Since her last visit, which she can't remember, the Red Queen has moved in and taken everything over. And Alice, in varying proportions, and eventually in armor, is the champion of the resistance, as armies of chess pieces prepare to go to war in this psychedelic landscape.
There is lots more of Johnny Depp here as a very mad hatter, Mia Wasikowska as Alice, and especially Helena Bonham Carter as the equally mad Red Queen, whose lust for power has quite literally gone to her head. Amazing visuals throughout, which you can also explore at a bit less frenetic pace in the new batch of stills released in conjunction with the trailer.