Alice Through the Looking Glasshas a steampunk feel to it, as apparent in the trailers previewingSacha Baron Cohen’s Time and his Victorian clock-esque headquarters. But new photos revealing the little minions that lie within bring even more of the style to this already fantastical world.
Entertainment Weeklyrevealed a new batch of images from theAlice in Wonderlandsequel featuring Seconds, the wind-up robot helpers of Time. According to animation supervisorTroy Saliba, “‘Minions’ is a word that we generally try to avoid, but we were leaning on body-language comedians like Mr. Bean and Buster Keaton.” The primary Second is Wilkins, who flaunts a mustache and steam-powered design. DirectorJames Bobincalls him “our little oil can with legs,” adding, “He’s the curious puppy who always wants to help out.”
However, you don’t want to get on these little buggers’ bad side, as Alice (Mia Wasikowska) discovers when she steals the battery to Time’s grand clock. The Seconds gather together in groups of 60 to form a creature called Minutes. When all the Minutes get together, they form — you guessed it — the Hour.
Bobin, who succeededTim Burtonin helming the sequel,told Colliderof the CG world:
It’s a delicate balance, because obviously I loved the first film in terms of Tim’s work on it. Its look is beautiful. It really is a spectacularly interesting world to live in and the characters are so spectacular – Helena’s look and all that stuff. I really wanted to pay tribute to that, to keep that sense of the universe being whole, but we were lucky in the script that we had that we could move through time. So therefore, I was able to do different things and use different places.
FeaturingJohnny Depp’s Mad Hatter,Anne Hathaway’s White Queen,Helena Bonham Carter’s Red Queen, and the lateAlan Rickman’s Caterpillar,Alice Through the Looking Glassis scheduled for release on May 27th. See the new photos below.
