"Watchmen" may be the toast of fandom, but as far as films not based on comics, Tim Burton's live action/stop-motion hybrid "Alice in Wonderland" is easily one of the most anticipated. To date, the enigmatic director has generated considerable buzz for an inspired casting roster that includes Johnny Depp, Helen Bonham Carter, Crispin Glover, Alan Rickman, Michael Sheen, Christopher Lee and, of course, Anne Hathaway.

Hathaway plays the White Queen alongside Bonham Carter's Red Queen, and according to her it's a role best described by an anecdote. "A friend of mine just gave me a magnet that was a bunny rabbit holding a knife," she recalled. "It said 'Cute but psycho, it evens out.' And that's kind of my character as the White Queen." Read more...

This has to be a match made in heaven. The Hollywood Reporter announces that Crispin Glover has joined the cast of Tim Burton's "Alice in Wonderland." Amazingly, these two eccentrics (and I mean that in the best way) have never worked together before, though Glover seems tailor made for Burton's unconventional films. However, Glover is likely to have been brought to the fold by Johnny Depp, who has worked with him in "Who's Eating Gilbert Grape" and "Dead Man." It's a small world after all.

Glover will be playing the Knave of Hearts (joining fellow royals Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter), who is put on trial for stealing the tarts hand-baked by the Queen of Hearts. She's determined to send him to the chopping block for the crime, and Alice and the Mad Hatter are both called upon to defend him. Read more...