Michael Sheen joins “Unthinkable” and “Alice in Wonderland”

Posted by Allan Ford 1 October, 2008 (0) Comment

British actor Michael Sheen (The Deal, The Queen, Underworld trilogy) is set to be a very busy actor with a role in the upcoming thriller “Unthinkable” with Samuel L. Jackson and Tim Burton’s “Alice in Wonderland,” reports Variety.

Michael Sheen

Unthinkable, directed by Gregor Jordan, looks at the ethics of torture after a terrorist threatening to detonate nuclear devices in the U.S. is questioned by a black-ops interrogator and an FBI agent (Carrie-Ann Moss). The film starts shooting this month.

Sheen will also have a role in “Alice in Wonderland,” in which Johnny Depp is playing the Mad Hatter, Mia Wasikowska -Alice and Matt Lucas – Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

“Alice in Wonderland” is currently in pre-production and slated for a March 5, 2010 release.

Sheen can next be seen as David Frost in Ron Howard’s BFI London Film Festival-opener “Frost/Nixon.”