It’s slated to release sometime next year, but some production art and headshots of characters have creeped out online over time, especially in the last day or two.
And if you’re wondering… Yes, it is most certainly steeped in Tim Burton’s classic vision of the fantastic.
And yes, the image to the left is Johnny Depp as The Mad Hatter.
And, again, yes — it is downright creepy!
If you want to check out some other info, a USA Today article offers some concept art and details some of the story here. And some other production stills are available at Yahoo! here.
The one thing you can always count on with a story that has been Burtonized: his ideas will stretch far into a direction you never considered. At minimum, even if the story isn’t especially compelling, he will always create a visually arresting world that you can’t help but look at.
What do THH patrons think?
(HT to Quint @ Ain’t it Cool News)
THH’s readers are a smart set — well informed and willing to stretch their imaginations. I’ve always imagined that we come from a tremendously wide variety of ages, backgrounds, philosophies and worldviews. I’ve also figured, in the last few days, that many of us have at least been distantly aware of the turmoil in Iran. It is not my intention to get political here, and please do not take this post as such.
But, I sometimes find myself reminded of the power of a word, description, or scene. It’s easy to read a scene like Harry’s walk in the woods with his family to what he knows will be his death, and understand that he has accepted it. But, an honest mea culpa: as much as I love literature, it’s sometimes easy for moments like these to remain somehow abstract in my mind. Again, I understand so well what that scene is after. But, I always tell my students that the true power of literature is its ability to make the reader feel what it’s after. [click to continue…]
A Yahoo! article indicates that a legal action filed in England is claiming that J.K. Rowling copied significant portions of Goblet of Fire from a 1987 children’s book written by Adrian Jacobs, called Willy the Wizard.
It named the estate’s trustee as Paul Allen, and said that Rowling had copied “substantial parts” of “The Adventures of Willy the Wizard — No 1 Livid Land” written by Jacobs in 1987.
It added that the plot of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire copied elements of the plot of Willy the Wizard, including a wizard contest, and that the Potter series borrowed the idea of wizards traveling on trains.
“Both Willy and Harry are required to work out the exact nature of the main task of the contest which they both achieve in a bathroom assisted by clues from helpers, in order to discover how to rescue human hostages imprisoned by a community of half-human, half-animal fantasy creatures,” the estate statement said. [click to continue…]
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Rowling and Bloomsbury Accused of Plagiarism
by Dave the Longwinded on June 15, 2009
A Yahoo! article indicates that a legal action filed in England is claiming that J.K. Rowling copied significant portions of Goblet of Fire from a 1987 children’s book written by Adrian Jacobs, called Willy the Wizard.
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