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Anne Hathaway, who is generating buzz for her performance in Rachel Getting Married, has signed for a role in Alice In Wonderland, which Tim Burton is directing for Disney.

The cast of the film is already turning out to be really interesting. Helena Bonham Carter, Burton’s fiancée, also has joined the film. The movie has already got its Alice played by Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter. The film will use a combination of live action and performance capture technology to tell the classic Lewis Carroll story.

Hathaway will be playing the White Queen, a benevolent monarch who is deposed and banished by her sister, the Red Queen will be played by Helena Bonham Carter, who has an affinity for crying out, “Off with their heads!” The White Queen needs Alice to slay a creature known as the Bandersnatch.

Hathaway will reprise her role as Agent 99 in the sequel to Get Smart, and next will appear in the horror thriller Passengers. But her performance in Rachel Getting Married has been getting some rave reviews, an acclaimed drama in which Hathaway’s character disrupts her sister’s wedding, opened promisingly in limited release last weekend.

Carter will be joining Johnny Depp once again after they were seen last in Burton’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.”