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October 8, 2008
Anne Hathaway, who is generating buzz for her performance in “Rachel Getting Married,” has reportedly signed for a role in the classic Lewis Carroll story “Alice in Wonderland,” which Tim Burton is directing for Disney
Burton’s fiancee Helena Bonham Carter, has also has joined the film. The movie, features Mia Wasikowska as Alice and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter.
Hathaway who guest hosted on ‘Saturday Night Live’ this past weekend, is playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen (Carter), who has an affinity for crying out, “Off with their heads!” The White Queen needs Alice to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch.
The Devil Wears Prada actress is set to next appear in the horror thriller “Passengers.” “Rachel Getting Married,” an acclaimed drama in which Hathaway’s character disrupts her sister’s wedding, opened promisingly in limited release last weekend. Carter recently teamed with Depp, last year in Burton’s “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”
Alice, which is due for release in 2010, will mix live action with animation and will be in 3D.
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