Tim Burton, creator of Nightmare Before Christmas, has agreed to direct the remake of Alice in Wonderland for Disney. The filming is set to start in 2008 and the movie will be released in 2010.

The Alice adaptation will be a combination of live-action and performance-capture animation and will be based on a script by Linda Woolverton (The Lion King). It will be produced by longtime Burton collaborator Richard Zanuck and former Disney chairman Joe Roth, with Jennifer and Suzanne Todd.

IMDB gives the plot outline as, "The adventures of a young girl, Alice, who falls into a magical world full of strange characters and darkness behind every corner."

Following Alice in Wonderland, Tim Burton will direct and produce a feature version of his 1984 short Frankenweenie. The stop-motion feature follows a dog that is brought back from the dead by its devoted owner. Funny thing is that in 1984, Tim Burton was fired from Disney because of the original Frankenweenie "wasting the company resources."

No Casting information is available yet. Who do you think should be in this film? How about Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter? Who should play Alice?