Tim Burton and Johnny Depp’s newest collaboration, Alice in Wonderland, hits theaters today. Tim usually scores big when he remakes anything, and it is rumored that he is working on revamping the Disney fairy tale Sleeping Beauty as a live-action picture, focusing on the film’s villain, Maleficent.

Best known as the director of Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Sweeney Todd, Tim usually creates dark and quirky-themed movies and loves using Johnny Depp in his films. We picked a few more fairy tales we’d like to see remade by Tim Burton:

The Little Mermaid – The Little Mermaid is a classic Hans Christian Anderson fairy tale about a young mermaid who falls in love with a human and makes a deal with an evil witch to give up her life in the sea and become a human herself. We’d like to see Tim transform Johnny Depp as Sebastian the crab (one of the main characters in the Disney version) and cast Meryl Streep as the sea witch.

Beauty and the Beast – Beauty and the Beast was first published by Madame Gabrielle-Suzanne Barbot but was famously recreated by Disney in 1991. The fairy tale is about a beautiful girl who falls in love with a beast only to find out he’s really a prince under a spell.

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(CNN) — “Alice in Wonderland” — with its hat-wearing madmen, anxious rabbits and disturbing, smiling cats — would seem to have filmmaker Tim Burton’s name written all over it.

After all, since he started producing and directing films more than 20 years ago, Burton’s name has become synonymous with everything wondrously strange.

Take the delightfully weird world of Roald Dahl’s “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” that Burton brought to the screen in 2005 (with, it must be noted, very mixed reviews). Or the extreme spirits of “Beetlejuice.” Or the gleeful aliens of “Mars Attacks!”

While the reviews of “Alice” haven’t been overwhelmingly positive, the expectations have been high.

“He’s one of the few filmmakers left where his movie release is an event,” said Kristian Fraga, filmmaker and author of “Tim Burton: Interviews.”

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Here’s the book trailer that made both Tim and Timur interested!

Less than 6 hours! :O

HOLLYWOOD — Inarguably one of the greatest director/actor pairings of all time, Tim Burton and Johnny Depp are celebrating their 20th anniversary together this year — and doing it with their seventh film, the eagerly anticipated “Alice in Wonderland,” in theaters March 5.

From their beginnings with “Edward Scissorhands” through “Ed Wood,” “The Corpse Bride,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” and the rest, they’ve made hundreds of decisions together. From which films to make, to which roles Depp should play, to how he should do any given line-reading, fans have delighted to many of their choices. But when we caught up with the duo on Friday (February 19), we had to mix it up a bit and ask: What is the worst idea either one has ever brought to the other?

“Maybe just any time I’ve called him,” Burton grinned, looking over at his frequent leading man.

“I remember one morning on ‘Sleepy Hollow,’ ” Depp began, referring to the 1999 hit that had him playing Ichabod Crane. “I came in to block a scene, getting a cup of coffee — you’re only half awake. Tim was there, giggling a little bit.

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“I’ve been living in England for many, many years and I’m a huge ‘EastEnders’ fan,” said Burton, referring to the soapy (and routinely controversial) drama that has aired on BBC One since 1985. “And Barbara Windsor is just wonderful on it and in so many other things. I’m serious, she’s a national treasure in England.”

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“I kept thinking about the twins in ‘The Shining,’ ” Burton said, referring to the chilling Stanley Kubrick horror film that celebrates its 30th anniversary this year. “But really any kind of twins. There’s always something scary about them, in a way. Or there can be.”