Alice in Wonderland’s Johnny Depp surprises fans at Comic-Con

The crowd erupted in ecstatic surprise to see Johnny Depp who showed up at Disney’s 3D presentation of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland. Depp walked on stage, waved and then exited with Burton. But that was all it took to create some major hysteria from the crowd.

Burton said the Alice in Wonderland film, a 3-D peek through the looking glass, is his most challenging project to date.

“It’s the first time we’ve done a lot of green screen,” he said. “It starts to freak you out after a while.”

According to the LA Times, the footage, which prominently featured Depp’s Mad Hatter, highlighted the fantastic whimsical images Burton has assembled for the movie, created using a hybrid of live-action and animation and other techniques. “John and I worked together many times, but he’s never done a character with orange hair,” Burton joked. “We scalped Carrot Top and took his hair. We realized once we got into it that we picked out every image from TV and cinema of red hair and it’s quite a distributing thing—from Bozo onward.”
– Toni-Marie Ippolito

Check out the Alice in Wonderland Trailer:

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