Tim Burton says he probably won't work for Disney again - CNN

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Tim Burton is sounding disconnected connected his erstwhile moving narration with Disney, saying helium is improbable to instrumentality to the institution arsenic a manager successful the future.

The filmmaker attended the Lumiere Festival successful France implicit the weekend, wherever helium received the honorary Prix Lumière award. He spoke astatine a property league connected Saturday wherever helium likened moving for the institution to the quality Dumbo being trapped successful “this horrible large circus.”

“It’s gotten to beryllium precise homogenized, precise consolidated. There’s little country for antithetic types of things,” Burton said, according to Deadline.

Burton noted that Disney is present mostly focused connected its tentpole franchises chiefly wrong the Star Wars and Marvel cinematic universes and of his imaginable engagement successful the MCU successful the future, helium said chances were slim.

“I tin lone woody with 1 universe, l can’t woody with a multi-universe,” helium said.

Burton past collaborated with Disney connected 2019’s live-action reimagining of “Dumbo.” The “Beetlejuice” manager archetypal worked for the Mouse House arsenic inferior animator for films similar 1981’s “The Fox and the Hound.” He went connected to nonstop movies similar “A Nightmare Before Christmas” (through Touchstone) successful 1993, 1996’s “James and the Giant Peach,” 2012’s “Frankenweenie” and “Alice successful Wonderland” successful 2010 (along with 2016’s sequel) among different titles.

“I was hired and fired similar respective times passim my vocation there,” helium added. “The happening astir ‘Dumbo,’ is that’s wherefore I deliberation my days with Disney are done, I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was moving successful this horrible large circus and I needed to escape. That movie is rather autobiographical astatine a definite level.”

The director’s adjacent project, Addams Family spinoff bid “Wednesday” for Netflix, is owed retired connected November 23.