Alice returns to Wonderland, and her return is seen in a new trailer that Walt Disney has dropped on fans!
The trailer, which is for the upcoming movie “Alice Through The Looking Glass,” reveals details of Tim Burton's follow-up to the 2010 movie “Alice in Wonderland.”
E! Online reported that in the trailer, Alice, played by Mia Wasikowska, returns to Wonderland and meets old friends and enemies, as well as a new villain. Her return has already been foretold, even before she knew it would actually happen:
“When the day becomes the night, and the sky becomes the sea. When the clock strikes heavy, and there’s no time for tea, and in our darkest hour before my final rhyme, she will come back home to wonderland, and turn back the hands of time.”
Alice returns to Wonderland and discovers she must stop Time – a personified version played by Sacha Baron Cohen – in order to save the Mad Hatter, played by Johnny Depp.
Entertainment Weekly reported that Time is a half-clock, half-human character who comes as Disney's new villain. "Time is a he?" Alice asks.
"He is not someone you want as your enemy," warns the White Queen, played by Anne Hathaway.
The follow-up is loosely based on Lewis Carroll's second novel (and sequel to the children's tale), “Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There,” from 1871.
Helena Bonham Carter also returns as the Red Queen, while Matt Lucas comes as Tweedledee and Tweedledum. Returning voice actors include Alan Rickman as Absolem, the Blue Caterpillar; Michael Sheen as Nivens McTwisp, the White Rabbit; Stephen Fry as Cheshire, the Cheshire Cat; Paul Whitehouse as Thackery Earwicket, the March Hare; Timothy Spall as Bayard, the Bloodhound; and Barbara Windsor as Mallymkun, the Dormouse.
Newcomers to the franchise include Rhys Ifans as Zanik Hightopp, the Mad Hatter's father; and Ed Speelers as James Harcourt. Toby Jones also voices Wilkins, and John Sessions voices Humpty Dumpty.
James Bobin (Flight of the Chonchords, The Muppets) directed the movie, while Linda Wolverton (Maleficent) wrote the script.
“Because the first movie was so commercially successful, obviously there was this idea that we should make a sequel,” producer Suzanne Todd told EW. “But we took a really long time trying to figure out what the interesting themes were for us, which was this idea that we all inadvertently waste time. Once it’s gone, it’s gone forever.”
“Alice Through The Looking Glass” releases May 27, 2016.
