Oct 24 2008'Alice in Wonderland' Gets Crispined
Crispin Glover has signed on to play the Knave of Hearts in Tim Burton's motion-capture take on Alice in Wonderland. From THR:
Crispin Glover has signed on to play the Knave of Hearts in Tim Burton's adaptation of "Alice in Wonderland" for Disney.Glover joins Mia Wasikowska as Alice and a cast that includes Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter. Burton is using a combination of live action and performance-capture technology to tell the Lewis Carroll story.
The APA-repped Glover is no stranger to performance-capture technology: He worked in the medium for "Beowulf."
This movie just got 90% more likely to make me recoil from creepiness!
Reader Comments
1. PEWPEWPEW - October 24, 2008 11:37 AM
McFly .. sweet .. I hope he brings his bag of rats
2. Go Goya - October 24, 2008 12:58 PM
How do you think it makes Crispin Glover feel as he lay in bed at night that he is turning into Hollywood's go to guy for creepy mocap roles?
I hear Johnny Depp is reprising his role as Willy Wonka for this film.
3. Elmo - October 24, 2008 1:34 PM
Hey, it's a cartoon
creepy cartoons are awsome, cause they're cartoons
but I've never heard of this guy.... looks interesting (?)
4. Luke - October 24, 2008 1:53 PM
Ummm... Elmo.. I hope your comment isn't trying to insinuate that this movie is going to be a cartoon. Cuz, its live action bud... Unless you meant the original movie was a cartoon, in which case...
Wait - You don't know who Crispin Glover is? That pretty much proves that our good friend Crispin holding out on BTTF 2 & 3 was the stupidest move in Hollywood since ... well... ever.
5. Bubba Gump - October 24, 2008 2:56 PM
For some odd reason I love this dude. He'z a bit strange- anyone else see da youtube vid of his appearance on Letterman?
6. Elmo - October 24, 2008 3:50 PM
@ Luke
duh of course I know that, what I mean was that all the Wonderland characters are going to be animated at least... right? Or is it just the rabbit who's animated?
I actually can't find anything too specific on that....
7. Wow - October 25, 2008 4:58 AM
Sheesh, Tim Burton's movies all need to be prefaced with the words "Tim Burton's..." Tim Burton's Alice In Wonderland, Tim Burton's Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes.
Talk about a one trick pony.
(Johhny Depp - Crispen Glove)/(Helena Bohnam Carter x Winona Ryder)^(X - Creepy Sets/Makeup) = Any Tim Burton Movie
8. Wow - October 25, 2008 5:00 AM
X = Tim Roth/Mark Walberg - SFX
9. Wow - October 25, 2008 5:00 AM
Make a Monkey Island Movie instead.
10. Charlotte - October 25, 2008 1:26 PM
Wow,I just realised. They really need to make a biopic of Aubrey Beardsley for this guy to star in.
11. Memphisto - October 27, 2008 2:18 AM
Jeez, folks. Elmo's never heard of Crispin Glover and WOW thinks that having a unique but characteristic artistic style is formulaic. Yeah, those guys DeNiro and Scorsese make a lot of italian flicks too. BOR-ing.
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. Get thee to netflix, sinners!
Couldn't you just post FIRST or whatever the heck number you were and be done with it?
12. TommyP - October 27, 2008 4:04 AM
Hmmm, will Johnny and Crispin get along after Johnyy made Willy Wonka creepy and Crispin turned around and made him evil and sadistic in Epic Movie?
I got a fiver on Crispin if the fur flies but that should definitely be without assistance aka rats vs. crabs or pirate moves vs. Thin Man moves.
Interestingly enough, they could duke it out on the Bonneville Salt Flats, I think they've both been there.
13. wtf - October 28, 2008 11:19 AM
Luke,
The article says the movie will be motion capture, not live action. It's gonna be a steaming pile of digital crap just like Beowulf.
Actually, scratch that. Sometimes the digital faces in Beowulf are more animated than actual "actors" in hollywood (think the blank stare of Paris Hilton).
PS - Crispin Glover rules, but also makes me think that he may be a serial killer of some sort in real life.
14. Hattie - October 28, 2008 5:55 PM
Sweet Jesus, I do love Crispin Glover.
15. TMIB - December 12, 2008 11:48 AM
Bubba: his appearance on Letterman was a joke that unfortunately, few people really "got." He was playing his character Reuben from the movie "Reuben & Ed". He straight-faced the character so well that Letterman (and presumably most of the audience) thought that Crispin Glover was on LSD or something.