New images from Tim Burton's ALICE IN WONDERLAND have been revealed.

{sidebar id=1}You know how the old kiddie rides at Disneyland actually scare young children? Like Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland, Snow White, just to name a few. The creators and designers of those rides, although it was more than 50 years ago, seem to take pleasure in scaring young ones with creepy lighting, scary characters and the like. 

Well, Tim Burton has taken that to a whole new level with his incarnation of the ALICE IN WONDERLAND story.

A First Look write up and images, including Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, were released in USA Today this evening and they are sure to make a few kids freak out and run to their rooms crying...but hey, that's what Tim Burton is good at!

Producer Richard Zanuck had a few things to say about the project,

"We finished shooting in December after only 40 days," Zanuck says. Now the live action is being merged with CG animation and motion-capture creatures, and then transferred into 3-D. The traditional tale has been freshened with a blast of girl power, courtesy of writer Linda Woolverton (Beauty and the Beast). Alice, 17, attends a party at a Victorian estate only to find she is about to be proposed to in front of hundreds of snooty society types. Off she runs, following a white rabbit into a hole and ending up in Wonderland, a place she visited 10 years before yet doesn't remember. Among those who welcome her back is the Mad Hatter, a part tailor-made for Johnny Depp as he collaborates with Burton for the seventh time. "This character is off his rocker," Zanuck says.

Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska, 19, best known for HBO's In Treatment, has the coveted title role. "There is something real, honest and sincere about her," Zanuck says. "She's not a typical Hollywood starlet."

There is the usual Burton-esque ghoulishness (Helena Bonham Carter's Red Queen, whose favorite retort is "Off with their heads," has a moat filled with bobbing noggins), but Zanuck assures most kids can handle it. "The book itself is pretty dark," he notes. "This is for little people and people who read it when they were little 50 years ago." 

There is also some interactive concept art included in the article including the first look at the White Rabbit, click the above link for those!

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