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Saturday
18Jul2009

Burton to Show 'Wonderland' Footage at Comic Con

DateSaturday, July 18, 2009 at 1:45PM
MTV (via Screenrant) reports that Tim Burton will show off our first footage for Alice in Wonderland next week at Comic Con. Burton is a producer (along with Wanted director Timur Bekmambetov) of Shane Acker's 9, which, at least until now, was the main reason he was attending the event. But now all the focus will shift to Wonderland.

“[It's] a kind of a semi-trailer…It’s where we’re at at the moment. There’s not a lot of footage to show," Burton said. I imagine the amount of footage won't matter to the fans in attendance; they'll be more than happy to be the first crowd to see any of it, outside of production photos and leaked pics from the set.

Because there's still a mountain of work to be done on the movie, including all the post-production wizardry that will make the 3-D live-action/CGI hybrid worth the price of admission, it's not at all surprising that we won't see much. I think Burton is kind of underselling it, though, and would expect it to be more than a minute or two of footage.

The footage will be part of Disney's 3-D panel on Thursday, along with some of the studio's other big charges on that front, this fall's A Christmas Carol and 2011's Tron. My only wish is that the footage would be shown after the presentation for 9 instead of before, because now that Q & A will have to endure questions to Burton about his other film. As it is, that discussion will probably field at least one Hobbit question for Elijah Wood.

I know there's been a lot of talk about James Cameron's Avatar and the way it will become the Brand New Testament, but I think Burton's Wonderland could be a real discovery, too. Even without the bells and whistles, it's a perfect project for him, with a candy coating covering a dark center. And add to that the visual artistry this could introduce (not to mention that fact that more people might see it than Avatar) and I think there's real potential for this movie to have an impact on the way 3-D is integrated with the other aspects of live-action filmmaking.

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