Tim Burton Casts "Alice"

You know, if anyone can do justice to Alice in Wonderland, it’s Tim Burton. The filmmaker is directing and producing a big-budget adaptation of the classic tale by Lewis Carroll, set for a 2010 release, and now he’s found his Alice.

Australian actress Mia Wasikowska is in final negotiations to walk through the looking glass. The deal marks the end of a very long search for the project’s title character.

Based on a script by Linda Woolverton (“The Lion King”), the film will be produced by longtime Burton collaborator Richard Zanuck, former Disney chairman Joe Roth, and Jennifer and Suzanne Todd. It will feature live-action and performance-capture footage, and will also be in 3-D. Principal photography is set to begin in November.

Keep an eye on Wasikowska. She got her star on the Aussie series “All Saints” and is a regular on HBO’s In Treatment (she plays the character of Sophie). She’ll next appear opposite Daniel Craig in Ed Zwick’s war drama Defiance and just completed filming the role of a young Amelia Earhart fan in Mira Nair’s biopic “Amelia,” starring Hilary Swank, Ewan McGregor, and Richard Gere.

It’s official. Her career is red-hot at the moment.

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