The film, based on a script by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King), will be produced by longtime Burton collaborator Richard Zanuck, former Disney chairman Joe Roth and Jennifer and Suzanne Todd. It will be shot with live-action and performance-capture footage and presented in Disney Digital 3-D. Wasikowska got her start on the Aussie series “All Saints” and is a regular on HBO’s “In Treatment.” She next will appear opposite Daniel Craig in Ed Zwick’s war drama Defiance and just completed filming the role of a young Amelia Earhart fan in Mira Nair’s biopic Amelia starring Hilary Swank. Principal photography starts in November. Show Comments |
Tim Burton and Walt Disney Pictures are in final talks with Australian actress Mia Wasikowska to star in