OH MY GOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I HATE the Queen of Heart's gigantic head.

The scan is actually from a pamphlet from AMC theatres.

This looks...terrible. I'm sorry, but I have no hope for this movie. The only thing that can save this is if the performances are great, but Burton is an all visual director and not one for pulling great performances out. I'm cautious as hell.

Agreed

Also, Depp is still stuck as Jack Sparrow for some reason. Maybe the other performances will be good, but they've made him like the face of the movie.

Seems like Burton/Depp will go 0/2 and ruin another movie dear to my heart (even though it's a sequel or whatever you wanna call it). :/

how does this mean burton/depp will go o for 2?

Yeah, I have to agree with Rosenator here. Depp and Burton tend to do good work together (see: Ed Wood, Edward Scissorhands)

I still think about Sammy Davis JR when I think about the caterpillar.

Looks uninspired. And Alice looks far too old... like in her late teens/early twenties. And the floating head cat? Was it like that in the book?

Anyway... Tim Burton has a pretty bad track record... am not sure how he manages to have so many fans.

Alice *is* that old in this story - hence my reference to it being a kind of sequel. You'll see...

i dont know how you can say tim burton has a pretty bad track record, maybe recently he's put up some weak showings, but i dont think that gives him an overall bad track record.

Said it before, but Burton really needs to stop "Burton-izing" existing properties and make something new and outside of his comfort zone. Now I dug Sweeney Todd and Sleepy Hollow but he really needs to do mores stuff like Big Fish and Ed Wood, which were great and were not the typical fare we associate with him.

The man is talented, but he seems to be incredibly lazy.

Totally agree with this wonderful comment. Maybe we should gang-hug Burton until he agrees to stop squandering that talent of his.

Looks awful. :/

I think the pictures look pretty good actually... I might not like the giant head of the queen of hearts... but I think this movie looks good........ I am a huge Disney fan and I think the problem is that some people are expecting it to be like the Disney animated one..... but that is just my opinion....

Ugh, I hate Tim Burton's "art" and "style" so much. But at this point I'm not sure whether it's because I really don't care for it or it's just all these stupid hot topic sheep that plaster themselves with Nightmare Before Christmas merchandise. Maybe it's both. Gettin' tired of Johnny Depp too.

If I could edit my ealier post, I'd add:

I hope to one day see a trailer to a movie and NOT be able to tell it was directed by Tim Burton.

Well it looks like a Tim Burton flik.

and thats the problem.

Everything about this film is oozing 'Tim Burton' -- right down to the font of the title. That's a concern.

Im kinda surprised by the negativity here .. I think this film looks rather amazing from a visual perspective. I just hope the story telling doesn't fall off the wagon quite as badly as it did in Willy Wonka though.

Wonderland itself looks cool, at least from some of the photos I've seen on IMDb. But the character design on the other hand is terrible. Jonny Depp looks like a buffoon.

Watched Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory last night... why and where does Burton fail? Mysterious.

I still think Ed Wood and Edward Scissorhands were Burton's best films.

Yes they had interesting visual looks, but the real power of those films were the engaging characters and the emotionally moving performances.

Unfortunately since then I haven't really liked any of his other efforts...

That being said, Sweeny Todd was definitely a step in the right direction, so it gives me a little hope... Give me a reason to believe again Tim!

The image is from a Disney PREVIEW magazine which is now in most AMC theaters nationwide and contains pages upon pages of upcoming Disney/PIXAR movies for the next year and change.

The image is from a Disney PREVIEW magazine which is now in most AMC theaters nationwide and contains pages upon pages of upcoming Disney/PIXAR movies for the next year and change.

this image is the same that disney is releasing this week into theaters but split up as 3 separate movie posters. the mad hatter/caterpillar is in the center, alice/hatter/rabbit on the left, red/white queen/tweedle dee/dum & cheshire cat is on the right. all 3 together make one kick ass movie poster, by themselves they stand alone too as cool

this image is the same that disney is releasing this week into theaters but split up as 3 separate movie posters. the mad hatter/caterpillar is in the center, alice/hatter/rabbit on the left, red/white queen/tweedle dee/dum & cheshire cat is on the right. all 3 together make one kick ass movie poster, by themselves they stand alone too as cool

The Art of Tim Burton

Tim Burton, known for his distinctive creative style, effortlessly blends the macabre with humor to create visually stunning films. Lesser known are their origins – his drawings. Burton’s illustrations pull you into a world that for all of its strangeness feels somehow familiar. It captures the essence of life’s absurdities. There is comfort in the sad, weird little beings that populate his imagination - a silent statement that it is ok to be different, and that it is ok to laugh at the oddness life brings us from birth. But his need to draw reaches far beyond his films. It permeates his life, his thoughts and observations flowing from pen and brush into his sketchbooks, which pile up, stuffed into every corner. For the first time, Burton has allowed his fans a broad look inside his private pages.

The Art of Tim Burton is the definitive compilation of forty years of Tim Burton’s artistry, including film concepts and hundreds of illustrations from his personal archives, edited under the creative guidance of Burton himself. This comprehensive 434 page book is grouped into thirteen chapters that examine common themes in Burton’s work, from his fascination with clowns to his passion for misunderstood monsters, to his delight in the oddities of people. Many of Burton’s friends and collaborators offer their thoughts, insight and anecdotes about Tim Burton’s style and artistic approach to life.


Artwork from the following films are included in this book: Alice in Wonderland (2010), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Corpse Bride (both 2005), Big Fish (2003), Planet of the Apes (2001), Sleepy Hollow, (1999), Mars Attacks! (1996), Ed Wood (1994), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Batman Returns (1992), Edward Scissorhands (1990), Family Dog (1987), Batman (1989), Beetle Juice (1988), Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985), Frankenweenie (1984), Vincent (1982), & Hansel & Gretel (1982). The book also contains additional drawings from his illustrated book of poetry The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy & Other Stories (1997), and from The World of Stainboy web shorts (2000).

-Orders can be placed in mid-November exclusively through the following website: www.steelespublishing.com

-Books will be shipped to buyers at the beginning of December 2009.
More information can be found at: www.timburton.com

The Art of Tim Burton
Publisher: Steeles Publishing
Language: English
Deluxe Edition ISBN-13: 9781935539001
Standard Edition ISBN-13: 9781935539018

Artwork by Tim Burton
Written by Leah Gallo
Designed by Holly Kempf
Edited by Derek Frey, Leah Gallo and Holly Kempf

Contributing Text By:

Allison Abbate
Colleen Atwood
John August
Rick Baker
Helena Bonham Carter
Liccy Dahl
Johnny Depp
Danny DeVito
Danny Elfman
Carlos Grangel
Ray Harryhausen
Rick Heinrichs
Martin Landau
Christopher Lee
Lindsay MacGowan
Ian Mackinnon
Shane Mahan
Alex McDowell
Victoria Price
Ken Ralston
Paul Reubens
Deep Roy
Winona Ryder
Richard Zanuck


Deluxe & Standard Edition Features:
Hard Back
12x11”
434 page
14 ‘gatefold’ fold-outs

Standard Edition:
Price: $69.99

Deluxe Edition:
Signed by Tim Burton
Includes “The Last of Its Kind” - a limited edition, signed lithograph. (limited to 1000)
The book is enclosed in a specially designed and fitted slipcase.
Price: $299.00

Beautiful! I think Burton will deliver, like he did with Charlie and the Chocolate factory. As a pretty good illustrator, good writer and a fantastic film maker, Burton has the depth, inteligence and respect to make his Alice remarkable. I think that almost every decade (since the invention of film) has it's own Alice production. Many of them are brilliant.
As a Lewis Carroll book collector, I have to say I'm a bit freaked out by the possibility of new collectors getting in the market and raising the costs of related items. Maybe I'll start selling if that occurs :)
by the way, going over some of the comments here, I see some people are questioning the over-all look of the charaters - a short study of the main illustrated interpertations of the Alice books (Tenniel, Rackham, Newell, Tarrant, etc.) will provide you with the answer to why Burton made them look that way. Specifically Rackham's interpatation to Alice.
Arthur Rackham made his Alice (way back in 1907) an adolecent that walks around in a very dark wonderland. The charaters are intimidating and the general atmosphere is quite far from the commonly presented Disney one. That's the fun about the Alice books, they give every one a different way of reading them and interperting them. Personally, I'm excited about Burton's Alice.