{"id":28473,"date":"2013-05-31T08:03:19","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T12:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=28473"},"modified":"2014-06-15T11:03:18","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T15:03:18","slug":"muppetss-james-bobin-in-talks-for-alice-in-wonderland-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/31\/muppetss-james-bobin-in-talks-for-alice-in-wonderland-sequel\/","title":{"rendered":"MUPPETS&#8217;s James Bobin In Talks For ALICE IN WONDERLAND Sequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JamesBobin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-28474\" src=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/JamesBobin.jpg\" alt=\"HBO\" width=\"250\" height=\"287\" \/><\/a>James Bobbin may be going down the rabbit hole soon. The man who directed <strong>The Muppets<\/strong>, and is currently finishing up work on its sequel <strong>The Muppets&#8230; Again!<\/strong>, for Disney is currently in talks to direct the sequel to the studio&#8217;s 2010 hit <strong>Alice In Wonderland<\/strong>, tentatively titled <strong>Into The Looking Glass<\/strong>. Bobbin is nowhere near a done deal, however, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thewrap.com\/movies\/column-post\/muppets-james-bobin-talks-direct-johnny-depp-alice-wonderland-2-94516\" target=\"_blank\">The Wrap<\/a> is reporting that his participation is in part pending approval of <strong>Alice<\/strong> star Johnny Depp.<\/p>\n<p>Linda Woolverton, writer of 2010&#8217;s <strong>Alice In Wonderland<\/strong>, is currently working on the script for the sequel, which will presumably use some elements from author Lewis Carroll&#8217;s literary <em>Alice<\/em> sequel Through The Looking Glass. Woolverton already lifted some elements from that book for her first <strong>Alice<\/strong> screenplay, including the White Queen and the Jabberwock.<\/p>\n<p>Not a hit with critics (51% at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/1221547-alice_in_wonderland\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> and I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/05\/review-alice-in-wonderland\/\" target=\"_blank\">hated it<\/a>), <strong>Alice In Wonderland<\/strong> still pulled in just over $1 billion at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boxofficemojo.com\/movies\/?id=aliceinwonderland10.htm\" target=\"_blank\">box office<\/a>, no doubt in part thanks to 3D ticket upcharges.<\/p>\n<p>Although it is far too early to think about casting for the film, presumably <strong>Alice<\/strong> star Mia Wasikowska will be returning to her titular role and Depp&#8217;s need to sign-off on Bobbin indicates that he will be back playing the Mad Hatter. No word as to what other characters from the first film will be returning.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\">The director needs to pass muster with star Johnny Depp first.<\/div>\n<p> <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2013\/05\/31\/muppetss-james-bobin-in-talks-for-alice-in-wonderland-sequel\/\" title=\"MUPPETS&#8217;s James Bobin In Talks For ALICE IN WONDERLAND Sequel\">[click for more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[656,6464,6465,2467],"series":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-alice-in-wonderland","9":"tag-alice-in-wonderland-2","10":"tag-into-the-looking-glass","11":"tag-james-bobin"},"aioseo_notices":[],"nelio_content":{"autoShareEndMode":"never","automationSources":{"useCustomSentences":false,"customSentences":[]},"efiAlt":"","efiUrl":"","followers":[],"highlights":[],"isAutoShareEnabled":false,"networkImageIds":[],"permalinkQueryArgs":[],"series":[],"suggestedReferences":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28473\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28473"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=28473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}