We’ve had various casting announcements, and the news that James Bobin is taking over the director’s chair. Now Disney has announced that the sequel to 2010’s billion dollar baby** Alice In Wonderland**, unsurprisingly subtitled Through The Looking Glass, is starting production. And, as the cameras begin to roll, the likes of Michael Sheen, Stephen Fry, Alan Rickman, Barbara Windsor, Matt Lucas and Timothy Spall have all been confirmed to return for vocal duties.
Mia Wasikowska will be back in front of the green screen once more, dealing again with Johnny Depp’s Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter’s vindictive Red Queen and Anne Hathaway’s spacey White Queen. New recruits this time include Rhys Ifans an Zanik Hightopp, the Hatter’s father, and Sacha Baron Cohen, officially contracted to play someone called 'Time', who may well be the villain in this second adventure.
Sheen is back voicing the White Rabbit, while Fry is the Cheshire Cat, Rickman the Blue Caterpillar, Windsor the Dormouse, Lucas Tweedledum and Tweedledee and Spall Bayard. The script is once again by Linda Woolverton and though Tim Burton has handed the directorial reins to Bobin, he’s a producer and has prompted costume designer Colleen Atwood (who won an Oscar for the original) and composer Danny Elfman to return.
The return trip to Underland (as it is known) is scheduled for May 27, 2016.