Depp is Burton’s MAD HATTER, naturally!
Posted by Matt Holmes
Of course, it’s the easiest rumor in the world to make up. Johnny Depp has starred in Tim Burton’s last three movies - six of the director’s last nine pictures.
Need a story for a slow news day to generate hits to your site? Yeah, why not put Depp and Burton together on their next project, after all it will probably turn out to be true anyway!
MSN News claim that Depp has been snapped up by Burton to play The Mad Hatter in the director’s motion captured CGI adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s complete mind-fuck of a fable. Last week 18 year old Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska was tapped up to play Alice.
Didn’t we kind of all expect Depp’s casting to be a given anyway? Would it not be stranger for Burton NOT to cast him in one of his upcoming pictures?
We all know Depp can play eccentric and crazy, and in the right character like Jack Sparrow or Ichabod Crane can do a wonderful job. But we all know what happened to Willy Wonka, kind of the bastard cousin of Mad Hatter, so I would advise him to go a completely different route here.
Now let’s just wait for the news of Helena Bonham Carter playing The Queen of Hearts!
source - aicn
categories - Alice in Wonderland, Movie News, Tim-Burton, johnny depp
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Johnny Depp is so much better than this. Him in a Burton movie is so predictible at this point.
Not saying he’d be bad for the part, but I think Burton should expand his horizons a bit. It’s hard to look at Depp in a Burton film and not see him rehashing every other Burton character he’s played.
It should be noted, though, that I have no interest in seeing another version of Alice In Wonderland to begin with. So I probably don’t count.
Lets face it, a Burton version of “Alice” is hardly gonna be like seeing the story “again” is it? this should be perfect for his mind.
Then again he did make “Planet of the Apes!
[...] trade have also confirmed what we speculated months ago that Depp would indeed be “motion capturing” The Mad Hatter for Tim Burton’s 3-D [...]