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Since news broke about Johnny Depp playing the role of the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland movie, there has been huge buzz about how Depp fit the role. He, after all, is known for portraying characters that are.. let see.. eccentric - from Edward Scissorhands, to Captain Jack Sparrow, to Willy Wonka. And today, a LiveJournal blog calling itself Fangirl Magazine has proven this right once again with what could be a first glimpse of Depp in the Mad Hatter costume.

In what has become a star-studded movie, Tim Burton has cast Crispin Glover (more known as Charlie’s Angels Thin Man) in his reimagining of Alice in Wonderland. Crispin is set to play the Knave of Hearts who is put to trial by the Queen of Hearts for stealing her tarts.

The movie has gotten a lot of buzz in recent months with the casting of Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. Other cast members include Anne Hathaway as the White Queen, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen and Mia Wasikowska as Alice. The movie is set for release in 2010.

Alice in Wonderland earlier broke in the news with Johnny Depp playing the Mad Hatter. New developments regarding the movies casting now reveal that Helena Bonham Carter (who’s famous as Bellatrix Lestrange in the Harry Potter movie) and Anne Hathaway will be part of the film as the Red Queen and White Queen respectively.

Great! Now all Tim Burton has to do is put Mike Myers as the voice of the Chershire Cat to cap it off. Alice in Wonderland is expected to hit theaters March 2010. The role of Alice belongs to Mia Wasikowska

Either I hadn’t really liked Disney or I didn’t know that there was an event called the Disney Day - an all-day event where Disney unveils its upcoming movies, plans, and what not. So what did we learn today?

Check the EW Popwatch Blog for the complete list but these are the ones I’m taking note of:

1. Johnny Depp is definitely gonna be Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland, and will again be Captain Jack Sparrow in Pirates of the Caribbean 4, and will also play in the Lone Ranger movie as sidekick Tonto.
2. Disney screened its November toon, Bolt, in its entirety.
3. Oprah Winfrey will voice Eudora, the mother of the main character in The Princess and the Frog set for a December 2009 release
4. The release of Pixar’s Cars 2 has been moved up a year to Summer 2011.
5. And, yes, Toy Story 3 is gonna be about the toys adjusting to life after their owner, Andy, finally leaves for college.
6. Sandra Bullock plugged the romantic comedy The Proposal; Dwayne Johnson charmed his way through a presentation of the remake, Race to Witch Mountain; and George Lopez described Beverly Hills Chihuahua as the “Citizen Canine” of dog movies (get it?).
7. And Hannah Montana: The Movie will happen.
8. Bruckheimer and Nicolas Cage announced National Treasure 3, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice, and the animated movie G-Force

Johnny Depp is bound to play the Mad Hatter in Alice in Wonderland. Depp, already known to play eccentric roles in his movies should give this character a lot of craze.

The Hatter is a fictional character initially encountered at a tea party in Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and later again as “Hatta” in the story’s sequel, Through the Looking Glass. He is popularly referred to as the “Mad Hatter,” but is never called by this name in Carroll’s book- although the Cheshire Cat does warn Alice that he is mad, and the Hatter’s eccentric behavior supports this. [source]

The The film also reunites him with director Tim Burton with whom he’s made several blockbusters including Sweeney Todd, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sleepy Hollow, Ed Wood and my favorite, Edward Scissorhands. Tim Burton has also cast Mia Wasikowska to play Alice in the movie.

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