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Also, Depp was the only named actor in the trailer, though his character's role was quite small in the book and previous versions. That irked me a bit.
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Well the
Alice in Wonderland film is more of a sequel to the original canon in which Alice returns as a 19 year old. It's a completely non-canonical modern retelling of the story, and was written specifically to give the Mad Hatter a larger role.
I read the early treatment of the script which leaked over the net, and it was pretty epic. More like a more whimsical Narnia in the sense that theres a large battle between the Red Queen and the rebels (in this sense, it's also like
American McGee's Alice).
Depp is admittedly the largest actor in the film. Coming in at close second is Christopher Lee and Alan Rickman, followed by Anne Hathaway and, of course, Helena Bonham Carter. The rest of the cast is a cache of interchangeable british actors we all recognize but can't be arsed to remember by name.