Mia Wasikowska is set to play Alice in Tim Burton and Disney’s Alice in Wonderland.  

Casting the part of Alice was, obviously, an important link to the whole film. Wasikowska fits the role to lead the adventure through the looking glass.

The film, based on a script by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King), is set to be filmed with live-action and performance-capture footage and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. Disney. Principal photography starts in November.

Wasikowska started on the Aussie series “All Saints” and is a regular on HBO’s “In Treatment.” She next appears opposite Daniel Craig in war drama Defiance and just completed filming the role of a young Amelia Earhart fan in the biopic Amelia.

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