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« on: December 21, 2010, 06:23:05 AM »
The situation with Kirsten Van Wagner is almost like the situation with Helena Bonham Carter and the New York Times Web site. They list her as having been cast as Julia in the film - yet nowhere else is there any info to confirm it. Though a difference from the Kirsten Van Wagner situation is that Bonham Carter has repeatedly claimed that she hasn't even been asked to be in the film. So, beyond the notion that she frequently appears in Burton's films, just where is the NYT getting their info?
As for the IMDb requiring some sort of verification, the only thing I've ever noticed there is a link to one of the German Web sites that I referred to two weeks ago. But it still remains unclear to me if the IMDb listing came first of the German Web sites' reports did. There's no date for the IMDb entry.
Of course, none of that means that Bonham Carter won't eventually be asked or won't be in the film - or even that Kirsten Van Wagner won't be. It's just that these sites seem to each be operating with sources of info that are exclusively (and I use that term loosely) known only to them, so who can tell how reliable they are? That being said, though, the fact that Burton prefers to be so secretive could be the very reason why there hasn't been any corroboration. In fact, if there's any truth in either situation, it just might be that someone went against Burton's wishes and said something when they really shouldn't have.
The only thing we can be sure of is that the facts will come out - eventually...