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Burton & Disney Do More 3-D

November 16, 2007 By S. K. Sloan 1 Comment

1847_729758857_tim3_h133757_l.jpgThe famed and quirky director Tim Burton will join forces again with Disney to bring two new 3-D pics to the big screen.

He’s set to helm a new take on “Alice in Wonderland” and a bizarre look at Mary Shelly’s legendary monster in “Frankenweenie.” “Alice in Wonderland,” will combine performance-capture imagery, the same technique used in “Beowulf,” with live-action footage. The script, based on the Lewis Carrol classic, will be penned by “The Lion King” scribe Linda Woolverton, according to Variety. Woolverton also was responsible for Disney’s “Beauty and the Beast.” Production is set to begin early next year, depending on the length of the WGA strike.

Burton, known for going out on that limb that few dare to tread, is currently putting the finishing touches to his Johnny Depp musical “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”

After “Alice,” Burton will helm and produce “Frankenweenie,” based on his 1984 short film about a pet dog brought back to life by his loyal owner. Pic will be shot in stop-motion animation and shown in digital 3-D, reports the entertainment paper.

“When the script came to us from Joe Roth, there was one name on my list and it was Tim,” said Oren Aviv, prexy of Walt Disney Motion Pictures Group. “It felt like a project that needed someone with a unique vision and voice to really give it that special look and memorable characters that only Tim Burton can do.”

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About S. K. Sloan

Samuel K. Sloan's love of Star Trek brought him to Slice of SciFi, where he was Managing Editor from 2005-2011, and returned from 2013-2014 before retiring once again from scifi news gathering.

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  1. Dana says

    November 16, 2007 at 7:39 pm

    Tim Burton is doing “Alice in Wonderland”?!
    OMG…that’s a match made in heaven!

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