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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