PHOTOS Sucker Punch character poster art by Alex Pardee

The movie Sucker Punch won’t be released for another eight months, but there’s already a great deal of anticipation for Zack Snyder’s “Alice in Wonderland with machine guns.” The film stars Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Abbie Cornish, Jamie Chung and Jena Malone as five girls trying to escape an insane asylum before Browning’s character Baby Doll is lobotomized at the request of her evil stepfather.

As part of their promotional efforts at San Diego Comic-Con 2010, posters were handed out on the Comic-Con floor featuring the fantastic artwork of Alex Pardee. There were seven posters total featuring six individual characters and one image of Baby Doll with her bunny-headed killing machine. Here are each of the posters with the character’s name and the actress playing her in the movie followed by more info about the movie including an excerpt from an interview with Zack and Debbie Snyder from io9.

(Top: A schoolgirlish Babydoll unsuccessfully tries to hide an unbelievably long Samurai Sword)

Click images to see larger photos in the gallery.

Jena Malone’s Rocket (above) is cute, sexy and deadly. Artist Alex Pardee has given her an hourglass corset, fishnet stockings, machine gun, hypodermic needle and the cutest little toy train set you’ve ever seen! Awwwwwwwww…

Alex Pardee’s rendering of Vanessa Hudgens’ Blondie character shows a relaxed vixen lounging in a suspended hoop with a pistol, machine gun and hatchet ready to go. (For some reason she’s got a pair of those crazy guy from Mad Max pilot goggles on her head?)

Carla Gugino’s Madam Gorski is perhaps the best of the Alex Pardee bunch as this skeletal but curvaceous Madame in black stares straight forward without fear, ready to use her cat o’ nine notes on anyone that doesn’t see things her way.

Alex Pardee’s Amber (to be played by Jamie Chung) features her in enlisted woman’s gear amidst some sort of surreal lollipop tree riding on the back of a bunny mech while toting a pistol. Sound crazy? Compared to the others, she seems downright conservative!

Abbie Cornish’s Sweet Pea is the most super-heroesque of the Alex Pardee renderings, showing Sweet Pea floating Firestar-like on a ring of flames sporting a leotard and hood while brandishing a sword in both hands.

Emily Browning’s Babydoll and her menacing bunny killing machine is a bit darker than the rest of Pardee’s Sucker Punch drawings and was probably meant as a separate piece. The bunny mech fires off machine gun rounds and the schoolgirlish and stoic Babydoll stands with one hand on her hip and the other holding an umbrella to divert the falling shells.

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Zack Snyder released this synopsis of Sucker Punch in February of 2009:

“Set in the 1950s, it tells the story of Baby Doll (Browning), who is trying to hide from the pain caused by her evil stepfather and lobotomy. She ends up in mental institution in Brattleboro, Vermont and while there she starts to imagine an alternate reality. She plans to escape from that imaginary world but to do that she needs to steal five objects before she is captured by an unknown adversary. She has 5 days to escape before being lobotomized. In order to cope with the situation, she enters the hyper-real world of her imagination, and the lines between reality and dream begin to blur. She is joined with friends who are inmates from the institution. Lessons learned in the said fantasy world could help the girls escape their real-world fate.”

And here’s a snippet of a great interview with Zack and Debbie Snyder conducted by io9:

And there’s multiple levels of the fantasy? Could you expand on that?

Zack Snyder: Baby [the main character] is committed to the insane asylum by her stepfather who wants her lobotomized so that she won’t be able to testify or tell the police what he’s done to her. He pays the evil orderly off and the guy’s like, “No problem, but it’s going to take me a little while because we don’t have a doctor here that can do the lobotomy.” So, in five days, the guy’s coming to do it and so in those five days she comes up with a plan to escape because she wants to get out before that happens. That’s really, sort of, the story of the movie. That she can help these girls and the other girls want to help her get out, because they want to get out. But then, somewhere along the way, she actually starts imagining that this insane asylum is a brothel, and that she is a virgin, and that–

Debbie Snyder: In five days, she’s going to be deflowered.

Zack Snyder: This rich guy’s coming to take her virginity.

Here’s the official trailer:

Dragons, jet planes, exploding blimps, missiles, prostitutes… Holy crap! I’m starting to understand how this film got its name!