It’s been five years since Johnny Depp and co entranced audiences in Tim Burton’s big screen adaptation of Alice in Wonderland.
And now the first trailer for the anticipated sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass has been released.
Johnny, Burton’s favourite leading man, is back as the Mad Hatter, while Anne Hathaway returns as the White Queen and Alice is again played by Mia Wasikowska, alongside an all-star support cast playing Lewis Carroll’s beloved characters.
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Look who’s back: The first trailer for the anticipated 2016 film Alice Through the Looking Glass has been released, with Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska returning as the Mad Hatter and Alice
The trailer for the follow-up opens with a warning to Alice that she must return to Underland to save her friend the Mad Hatter.
‘You’ve been gone too long Alice. There are matters which might benefit from your attention. Friends cannot be neglected. Hurry,’ the voice declares.
Stephen Fry’s voice as the Cheshire Cat then chimes in with a timely rhyme about Alice’s quest and her meeting with Sacha Baron Cohen’s new character, Time.
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Race against time: The follow up to Tim Burton’s 2010 film Alice In Wonderland sees Anne Hathaway’s Mirana sending Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, which powers all time
‘When the day becomes the night, and the sky becomes the sea, the clock strikes heavy and there’s no time for tea, then in our darkest hour, before my final rhyme, she’ll come back home to Wonderland and turn back the hands of time.’
Alice is warned that the mysterious Time ‘is not someone you want as your enemy,’ before she goes to meet him to beg for his help with the Hatter who is in danger.
Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen also makes a return in the visually spectacular trailer, giving the Mad Hatter a fright.
Making her royal entrance: Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen also makes a return in the visually spectacular trailer
New addition: Sacha Baron Cohen’s new character, Time, is half human, half clock
Since fans last saw her, Alice Kingsleigh has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas.
The new film follows her return to London, where she comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm of Underland and her friends including the Mad Hatter, who is not himself.
The Hatter has lost his Muchness, so Mirana (Hathaway) sends Alice on a quest to borrow the Chronosphere, a metallic globe inside the chamber of the Grand Clock which powers all time.
Trouble ahead: Alice is warned that the mysterious Time ‘is not someone you want as your enemy,’ before she goes to meet him to beg him to help the Hatter who is in danger
Time for tea? The sequel also features the voices of Michael Sheen as the White Rabbit
Another adventure: Since fans last saw her, Alice Kingsleigh has spent the past few years following in her father’s footsteps and sailing the high seas but she must return to Underland
Returning to the past, she comes across friends – and enemies – at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out.
The Muppets’ James Bobin takes over directing duties from Burton, who has a producer’s credit for the anticipated sequel to his 2010 film, which is the filmmaker’s highest-grossing movie to date, taking a massive $1.025 billion worldwide, which also earns it the title of being the nineteenth highest-grossing film of all time.
As well as its box office success, Alice in Wonderland won Best Art Direction and Best Costume Design at the 2011 Oscars, and was also nominated for Best Visual Effects.
Old friends and enemies: Returning to the past, Alice comes across familiar faces at different points in their lives, and embarks on a perilous race to save the Hatter before time runs out
Visual treat: Helena has transformed again to reprise her role as the Red Queen
On her way: In London Alice comes across a magical looking glass and returns to the fantastical realm
Through the Looking Glass, which will hit cinemas next May, also features the voices of Alan Rickman as Blue Caterpillar, Michael Sheen as the White Rabbit and Timothy Spall as Bayard.
Alongside Cohen’s Time, fans will be introduced to several other new characters including the Mad Hatter’s father Zanik Hightopp, played by Rhys Ifans.
Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass opens in UK cinemas on May 27, 2016.
Something wrong? Upon her return, Alice finds her friend the Mad Hatter is not himself
Time to go back: The team will be hoping to replicate the success of the 2010 film which made a massive $1.025 billion worldwide, making it the nineteenth highest-grossing movie of all time
Counting down the days: Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass opens in UK cinemas on May 27, 2016
source: dailymail.co.uk
