A first official look has arrived for Tim Burton’s upcoming variation on Alice in Wonderland and it’s just as bizarre as you expect. The photos below were originally published on usatoday.com.

Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter, Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen, and Anne Hathaway as the White Queen. Is it me or does Depp look more like actor Elijah Wood here? Regardless, I’m sure his portrayal of the Mad Hatter will be another welcome nutty performance.

Note the flowers with faces flanking both sides of the beautifully-framed still frame. I wonder what (if anything) they’ll sing. With composer Danny Elfman involved, I’m sure it’ll be something hilariously bizarre.

Despite the fact that Tim Burton is making Alice in Wonderland for Disney, this is not the same White Rabbit you know from Disney’s classic version of Alice in Wonderland. In Burton’s world, the rabbit surprisingly takes a more traditional form. This particular frame looks less like a still from a movie and more like an intricate painting. If this is what we can expect from the entire film, we’re definitely in for a visual feast. But then again, what Tim Burton movie isn’t packed with outstandingly unique visuals?

Tweedledee and Tweedledum take a much less traditional form – and a much more Burtonesque one, complete with his trademark black and white stripes.

While Alice is played by real-life 19-year-old actress Mia Wasikowska, many (if not all) of the rest of the characters in the film are a combination of live-action footage and motion-capture.

It seems that this variation of the Alice tale is something of a sequel, placing Alice back in Wonderland 10 years after her first visit, without any memory of ever being there before.

The cropped and shrunken images above were borrowed from slashfilm.com. Visit usatoday.com for high-resolution, zoom-able versions of each and more details about the film and its characters.

Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland is scheduled for release on March 5, 2010.