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James Bobin Talks Alice in Wonderland 2 And Helena Bonham Carter In Talks To Return


When Tim Burton’s adaptation Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland hit theaters back in 2010 and grossed over a $1 billion worldwide, it was clear that for Disney it wasn’t so much if they would make a sequel as much as when would they make it. Last year the studio brought in The Muppets director James Bobin to helm the sequel and since then we’ve learned that stars Mia Wasikowska, Johnny Depp have already signed on to reprise their role from the first movie in Alice in Wonderland 2 or should I say Through the Looking Glass, and according to Variety actress Helena Bonham Carter is currently in negotiations to return as the Red Queen.

While talking to Steve over at Collider, Bobin talked about his love of Carroll’s satirical writings and history:

“The thing about me is that my secret passion is history.  My films have a lot of historical context; I’m a huge fan of ruins.  You see a lot of ruin work in my movies, I like ruins.  So the idea of doing a movie that is not only historical but also fantastical, like a fantasy world, I couldn’t pass it up.  It’s one of the things I really wanted to do, and I’m also a huge fan of Lewis Carroll.  In England he’s this incredibly influential, basically comedy writer.  Lewis Carroll is known as a fantasy guy, but if you read the book as an allegory of the world or satire on the world and how it worked in those days, you can trace like Lewis Carroll to Monty Python; they’re part of the same family to me.  And so it felt like something I would find interesting, and that’s all I ask of my work, that it’s interesting to me.  Because I do it, as you know, to a very deep level, and so you spend a lot of time doing this stuff, so you have to love the material.  And I love Lewis Carroll, so I’m really fascinated about doing it.”

Bobin also said that the visual will be a little bit different from the first film:

“I have hired Dan Hennah, who did The Hobbit, which was beautiful and Lake-Town particularly impressed me.  This one is a slightly different—it’s set in Underland but it’s in different parts of Underland, so it has a slightly more human world.  I can’t really talk about it very much, but I certainly knew that the work he showed in The Hobbit was so spectacularly good [so] he’d be perfect for this.”

The director elaborated on the subject and said that his intention is to create a world in which the audience wants to spend some time on:

“The movie is not a real action movie.  The movie is a movie where you wanna create a world where you’re happy to spend two hours of your life.  You wanna be there and think, ‘What’s around that corner? I love being in this place.’  And that’s what it felt like in the first movie, I liked being in Underland and I love the idea that we’re gonna create that world again, a place where you’re happy to spend time.”

Through the Looking Glass hits theaters on May 27th, 2016.

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