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Disney unveiled two new posters for "Alice through the Looking Glass;" the studio's upcoming sequel to the wildly popular live action version of "Alice in Wonderland" starring Mia Wasikowska and Johnny Depp at the D23 Expo.

The first poster features Wasikowska's Alice and the second Depp's Mad Hatter. Both depict characters traversing expansive blue water via stepping stones made out of destroyed clocks. At the Disney's D23 expo in California on Saturday, the 25-year-old Australian actress appeared to promote the 2016 film.

The sequel to 2010's "Alice in Wonderland," "Alice through the Looking Glass" brings back Mia Wasikowska as the title character of Alice Kingsleigh, Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter (Hatter Tarrant Hightopp), Anne Hathaway as the White Queen (Mirana) and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen (Iracebeth).

New cast members include Sacha Baron Cohenas Time and Rhys Ifans as the Mad Hatter's father Zanik Hightopp. The film is set to hit theaters on May 27th, 2016.

Just in time for the celebration as "Alice in Wonderland" celebrates 150 years of publication in November. Alice, and its 1871 sequel Through the Looking-Glass, are thought to be the most quoted works of English literature after the Bible and Shakespeare,

Lewis Carroll, author of "Alice in Wonderland" is Charles Lutwidge​ Dodgson (1832-1898) in real life. He is the subject of Vanessa Tait's novel. She is the great-granddaughter of Alice Liddell (1852-1934) who is said to be the inspiration for Lewis Carroll's "Alice." Tait's novel seeks the real Charles Dodgson. In the novel Dodgson says: "It can get very dull being oneself all the time, if there is such a thing as oneself".

"Alice through the Looking Glass" is a sequel to the massively successful "Alice In Wonderland," which in 2010 grossed over $1billion. The new movie is directed by James Bobin (The Muppets) from a script by Linda Woolverton (Alice in Wonderland, Maleficent). The story "revisits Lewis Carroll's belowed stories with an all-new tale that travels back to Underland and back in Time.