De eerste Alice in Wonderland film was afkomstig van Tim Burton, die netjes bedankt heeft voor het vervolg dat nu zal gaan verschijnen onder de titel Alice Through The Looking Glass. Deze keer is het James Bobin verantwoordelijk voor de film en deze heeft ook The Muppets films gemaakt, en deze had een interview met de website Collider en daar van kan je hier onder alvast een stukje lezen.

How did this project first emerge?

JAMES BOBIN: (Laughs) Let me cast my mind back. I was at Disney. I was working for Disney, and I was finishing Muppets Most Wanted, and I was talking about other things that they were thinking about getting involved with. They mentioned Alice and I said, "I know Alice very well," because in England it's a book that your grandparents have at their house, your parents have at their house, and I have at my house. It's a thing that everyone knows. You grew up with it. I've always loved Alice and I've always loved Lewis Carroll. I love his kind of tone and his intelligence. So, it was the chance to work on a sequel to Tim's movie, which I could then bring some of my sensibility to in terms of my comedic background. I've always thought that Lewis Carroll himself had a certain comedy tinge to him. He was a guy who was a satirist. He really was a social commentator in many ways and was trying to satirize Victorian society. If you look at English comedy, we've always liked satire and surrealism from him to Edward Lear to The Goon Show to Monty Python. There's a very singular line of that in what we find funny as a nation, and what I find funny, because I'm from there. I felt I could bring some of that to this world in a successful way, and I hope that's what I've done.

How do the CG characters in this movie compare to working with The Muppets?

BOBIN: They're hugely different. Muppets was very much an exercise in anti-CG and the anti-effects world. It was very much in camera. We wanted to create a world where tangible puppets walked around and talked to each other. You could touch them. You could meet them. This is the other end of the spectrum, and that's why I liked it, because I wanted to do something completely different. As a director, obviously you should challenge yourself. It's important, because it's this thing that takes you away from your family for years. You have to really love the thing you're doing. It's very important.