Anne Hathaway has joined the cast of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland; she has been cast for the character of the White Queen Who was deposed and banished by her sister the Red Queen. She joins Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. It’s not exactly a big shocker that Tim Burton also cast his wife Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen.

In fact; as soon as the movie was announced I already said that Johnny Depp would be the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter would be the Red Queen, though at the time it was said as a joke. Guess Tim Burton is getting a bit too predictable with his casting choices though I didn’t expect him to cast Anne for the role of the White Queen.

Anne has gotten good feedback for her role in Rachel Getting Married and after all the problems in her personal life this is probably a good thing for her to come across her path. Though I still don’t like the sound of this project; the general feeling I have with the Alice in Wonderland movie is that it won’t do justice to the story. Casting the way too old Mia Wasikowska is just one of the problems.

What storyline will be is also a bit of a question now; the character of the White Queen isn’t from Alice in Wonderland but from Through the Looking-Glass, the sequel novel. It seems that Tim Burton is going to borrow some aspects from that novel as well. I’m also worried about the amount of motion capture that will be used in the movie. Though we’ll have to wait for the final result to see if it does the story justice. There however is no doubt in my mind that this movie will be a major success.

Tim Burton has finally found his Alice; something I’ve actually been wondering about for months. There weren’t really a lot of clues to who would be cast for the role of little Alice as she gets stuck in Wonderland. They’ve decided on Mia Wasikowska. I really had to look up that name because I never hear of her before. She’s seventeen and from Australia and is best known so far for her role in the HBO series In Treatment.

If I had to put money on who would have gotten the role I had actually said AnnaSophia Robb seeing she already worked with Tim Burton and she has worked with Disney. As I said I don’t know whether Mia is a good actress or not; I just know that she’s a bit old to play Alice. Alice from the book isn’t even close to being seventeen years old.

The movie will be a combination between live action and performance capture which I’m not too sure about. Beowulf sucked in my eyes and that was completely performance capture, I don’t really see the advantage over live action in certain cases. So I hope that performance capture will be limited to the more difficult parts of the Wonderland part.

I have no doubt that this will launch Mia Wasikowska in Hollywood though, Tim Burton movies usually are a good place to start. Though it’s no guarantee for a long career.