Anne Hathaway, who was criminally underutilized while hosting SNL last weekend, has joined the cast of Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, according to HR. Disney has also announced that Helena Bonham Carter is involved, but anyone who saw the production photos which leaked out last week already knew that she was at the least, in the general vicinity. It is a Tim Burton movie after all, her husband tends to get her a lot of work.

Anne is slated to play the White Queen, banished, benevolent sister of the evil Red Queen (Helena Bonham). If you’re wondering who the heck the Red Queen is, in every previous version of Lewis Carroll’s classic Alice tale, she’s been referred to as the Queen of Hearts. The Queen of Hearts is the vicious dictator who runs around screaming “off with his head!” It looks like Burton’s version will be dispensing with the deck of cards theme for Wonderland’s monarchy, and instead go with a decidedly less stimulating, color motif.

If memory serves, there’s no equivalent at all to Hathaway’s White Queen character in Carroll’s original story. Obviously the changes to Alice’s journey are going to run pretty deep. New characters and perhaps, since Johnny Depp is playing him, a much larger role for a formerly minor character known as the Mad Hatter.