That’s down under in Australia and not the Rabbit Hole!

The Hollywood Reporter say 18 year old actress Mia Wasikowska is in final talks for the titular character in Burton’s motion captured Beowulf style, 3-D Digital take on Lewis Carroll’s classic fable Alice in Wonderland.

She is very much an unknown kid, her cinematic CV reads off a pretty small role in the Aussie horror film Rogue and supporting parts in both Edward Zwick’s Defiance and the Amelia Earhart biopic which have yet to be released. This would be her first leading role and the end of a very long search for Burton and his casting team.

Adapted from Linda Woolverton, a scribe who wrote two of Disney’s classics of the last decade The Lion King and Beauty and the Beast, principal photography begins in November for a Christmas 2010 release.

LOVED Sweeney Todd, Burton got his magic back after a couple of mis-fires. With this and Robert Zemeckis’ A Christmas Carroll, we have two stories we have already seen told a million times before – but not quite the way these guys are gonna do it.