Depp is Burton's MAD HATTER, naturally!

by Matt Holmes

Of course, it's the easiest rumor in the world to make up. Johnny Depp has starred in Tim Burton's last three movies - six of the director's last nine pictures. Need a story for a slow news day to generate hits to your site? Yeah, why not put Depp and Burton together on their next project, after all it will probably turn out to be true anyway!

MSN News claim that Depp has been snapped up by Burton to play The Mad Hatter in the director's motion captured CGI adaptation of Lewis Carroll's complete mind-fuck of a fable. Last week 18 year old Aussie actress Mia Wasikowska was tapped up to play Alice. Didn't we kind of all expect Depp's casting to be a given anyway? Would it not be stranger for Burton NOT to cast him in one of his upcoming pictures? We all know Depp can play eccentric and crazy, and in the right character like Jack Sparrow or Ichabod Crane can do a wonderful job. But we all know what happened to Willy Wonka, kind of the bastard cousin of Mad Hatter, so I would advise him to go a completely different route here. Now let's just wait for the news of Helena Bonham Carter playing The Queen of Hearts! source - aicn
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Matt Holmes is the co-founder of What Culture, formerly known as Obsessed With Film. He has been blogging about pop culture and entertainment since 2006 and has written over 10,000 articles.