Het is alweer zes jaar geleden dat Tim Burton de film Alice in Wonderland uitbracht en sinds die tijd eiste de fans een vervolg. Deze komt er nu op 26 mei aan onder de titel Alice Through the Looking Glass en deze is niet meer van Tim Burton, maar deze is wel achter de schermen actief bij het process betrokken geweest. Nu had de website Collider een interview met de producent Suzanne Todd en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een klein stukje lezen.

Why did it take six years to do a sequel?

SUZANNE TODD: We spent a very long time working on the script. None of us expected that there would be a second movie. This was one of those movies when we started it where Linda (Woolverton) had had this idea that she wanted to do a female empowerment movie and we loved the idea of Alice. It started, like most ideas, as a small thing. Then, she wrote the script and we sent it to Tim (Burton). Shockingly, happily, Tim wanted to do it, and then he wanted to bring in Johnny (Depp), and then he thought we should do it in 3D. Then, all of a sudden, it grew into this bigger thing. But, even when we were making the movie, no one could have predicted that it would have that level of success. So, no one was really focusing on the idea of a sequel. It wasn't like if you take on the Harry Potter books, or these book series that you know you're going to make a bunch of movies. There was a moment of shock just after the movie came out to say, "How could it have made this much money? That seems nuts, but a happy accident." Then, it took us a long time to figure out a story we wanted to tell. There isn't a natural story in the second book that you can just take and adapt as a movie. We worked for a very long time, over a year, on the idea and then a script before we started looking for directors. Then, the process actually takes much longer than a normal movie. A regular movie, if it doesn't have visual effects, will have maybe a 20-24 week post. We finished shooting in October of 2014 and we are still in post, all day, every day. It's much longer by an exponential number just in terms of days and manpower to get it finished.