So apparently this image is going up and down across the internet today.

Remembering what happened when I posted the image of Two Face in The Dark Knight early, I figure I’ll have some fun on here again.

That image above? That’s the first look at Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter in Tim Burton’s version of Alice In Wonderland. Really.

Where does this come from, you ask?

Walt Disney had their annual meeting on Tuesday, to hype future releases.  During this 2 hour meeting, you had the first look at Alice, a 3D screening of Up, and the first footage of Toy Story 3, described as “jaw-droppingly good”.  Sounds rad.

The part that kinda sucks?  The media was told that they couldn’t release the above image. Why couldn’t they? Well, the big D is releasing a fancy $16 quarterly mag called Disney Twenty-Three, which has the first look at Alice as an exclusive.

Guess this is someone else’s whoops.

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