More Alice Pics Revealed

Callooh! Callay! More frabjous shots from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland have surfaced, courtesy of Coming Soon's scans of Mary Ellen Mark's Vanity Fair spread.

Colour-wise these are nowhere near as, well, loud as the previously released batch, lending the project a much darker vibe. The poses are similar to what we've seen before, but it's our closest glimpse so far of Aussie newcomer Mia Wasikowska as Alice. She's holding a white rabbit, which we guess means that the bunny being clutched by Johnny Depp's Hatter is a March Hare. Doesn't look much like Noah Taylor though.

Helena Bonham Carter meanwhile, is nursing a pig. Aside from the League of Gentleman connotations{ =nofollow}, this suggests yet more mangling of the source text. It already appears that her royal highnessness is an amalgam of the Queen of Hearts from Alice in Wonderland and the Red Queen from Through the Looking Glass. But if there's a pig on hand, and it's not just for the purpose of the photograph, that would seem to indicate that she's absorbed some of the first book's Duchess too: the one with the pepper soup, who speaks roughly to her little boy and beats him when he sneezes ("he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases"), until he turns into a porker and trots off.

Was there ever a better match than Tim Burton and Lewis Carroll?