New The White Queen Pic From ‘Alice in Wonderland’

Anne Hathaway is the White Queen in this new photo released by Empire Online.

Anne Hathaway is eye-catching as the White Queen in this brand-new picture available from Empire Online.  Her appearance is  elegant yet bizarre.

Which is not surprising since the White Queen seems to live her life backwards (screaming before she’s injured etc).  Mostly an ally to Alice, she will prove not to be the most useful or reliable companion.

Though I’d rather see Hathaway in the lead role of Alice, I think she’ll excel in this odd character.  Though truthfully all the inhabitants of Wonderland are more than a little odd.

Interesting fact is that the White Queen doesn’t appear in the Alice in Wonderland book, appearing in the sequel Through The Looking Glass.

But this Alice is not your Lewis Caroll classic.  It’s a modernized re-imagining of Caroll’s book, from the wonderfully weird mind of Tim Burton!  Burton is the no-brainer choice to direct Alice in Wonderland.

Linda Woolverton updated the story, which centers on the now-17-year-old Alice. Attending a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types, she runs after a white rabbit into a hole and ends up transferred once again to Wonderland. Still, she has no recollection of this place she visited 10 years before.

The 3-D movie will combine performance-capture imagery with live-action footage.  The scheduled release date is March 5, 2010.

During their 3D panel on Thursday, July 23 at the 2009 San Diego Comic Con, Disney will debut first ever footage of Alice in Wonderland.  Now I’m really upset I cannot attend this years Comic Con!

Are you going to Comic Con?  We would very much appreciate updates/reports from Disney’s 3D panel!

Empire also displayed three other pictures, which shows Mia Wasikowska’s Alice, Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter, and The Red Queen played by Helena Bonham Carter.

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