I love Disney's Alice in Wonderland - the Cheshire Cat was my favourite character. But now oddball director Tim Burton known for The Nightmare Before Christmas and more recently Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is getting his claws into the Lewis Carroll classic.
But Tim is not a cat-lover...but we won't hold that against him.
Early on in the making of Alice in Wonderland director Tim Burton had very strong feelings about one of the characters - and it wasn't what you would call a good feeling.
He told the Los Angeles Times: "The Cheshire Cat was a character I had a very specific image of and it's because I just have this thing about cats.
"The Cheshire Cat taps into what you might call my hatred of cats."
Actor Stephen Fry handles the character in the film and Burton praised him for capturing the unsettling mind of a feline.
"Stephen Fry did a great job of getting that creepy quality. You know, this weird kind of floaty, too-focused, creepy - he did it great.
"He has this thing of getting up close and just sitting there and staring at you, you know, like a cat. It just kind of sits there."
Burton made a noise, not unlike a tabby struggling with a hairball.
"I have this thing with cats. And with Cheshire Cat it's a love-hate relationship. You can, uh, hear it in my voice can't you?"
*Alice in Wonderland is out in cinemas next month.
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