Angelina Jolie is back on the back screen, as newly released images show the Hollywood star transformed into the Queen of Hearts.The actress, 45, is unrecognisable as the character made famous in Alice in Wonderland, for her part in major new family movie Come Away.The magical fairy tales Peter Pan and Alice in Wonderland are merged into a new origin story directed by Brave's Brenda Champman and featuring an all-star cast. Angelina and David Oyelowo star as Rose and Jack Littleton, parents to Alice (Keir Chansa) and Peter (Jordan A. Nash), who would become Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan.The story focuses around the family's grief after the loss of their eldest child, with the two children trying to help their parents recover. After Alice and Peter sell a family heirloom in London, Alice hides in a rabbit hole. and Peter enters another magical realm and meets the Lost Boys.It's while down the rabbit hole, that Alice meets the Queen of Hearts, played by Angelina, who looks magnificent as the the character from Lewis Carroll's beloved stories.Wearing a white dress with a huge frilled collar and painted with a red heart, the actress' hair is styled into a heart-shape while she is seen holding the famous white rabbit. Brenda Chapman makes her live-action directorial debut on Come Away, eight years after directing the Disney Pixar animated adventure Brave. The trailer released earlier this month sets up the magical tale, with Rose telling her daughter Alice that, 'every child has a fairy born just for them,' revealing that, 'Tinker's Bell was born for you,' as she rings a tiny bell.
Alice is dismissive, though, stating, 'It's just a bell,' before we see Jack, who says that Alice, 'is in a hurry to grow up,' while Peter wants to 'explore new lands.' We then get our first look at Peter, who is playing an adventure game while Alice has a tea party with a stuffed rabbit.After they have come inside, Rose jokes,' Who are these dirty vagabonds and what have they done with my children?'Jack adds that this is, 'the untold story of a brother and sister, two kindred adventurers, our Alice and our Peter.'There is also a tense scene in their home when a brick is thrown through their window, as a voice screams, 'I told you to pay your debt!' as the children hold hands.We also get a glimpse at Michael Caine's Charlie, who says that his boss is, 'still the boss, while Peter gets introduced to the Lost Boys, who come tumbling out of a tree.The trailer also shows Alice tumbling down the rabbit hole, as she is seemingly sent away to a boarding school, where the nefarious Eleanor Morrow (Anna Chancelor) says, 'We'll make a lady of you yet.'We see in another scene, though, that Eleanor is also this story's version of the Red Queen, as Alice finds a familiar bottle that says, 'Drink me' as she pleads, 'Take me away from here.'We also get a glimpse at Clarke Peters as the Mad Hatter, as Rose adds, 'We can all use a little extra courage, now and then.'The trailer winds down with a number of random shots before Peter tells Alice, 'It's no time to grow up, it never is,' as he embraces his sister before running off.The final shots tease the arrival of Tinker Bell through the actual bell.Come Away had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in Janaury with a scheduled release in the UK on December 18.The movie was actually filmed in 2018, with the all-star cast descending on locations in London and Windsor before filming concluded in Los Angeles. The film marks only the second movie role for Angelina in five years, following the success of last year's Maleficent sequel, Mistress of Evil.
source : Daily mail