Filmmaker Tim Burton didn’t maintain again on his ideas towards Disney throughout a press convention in France on Saturday.
Burton, who was in Lyon to obtain a lifetime achievement award from the Lumière Competition, weighed in on the standing of his relationship with the corporate he began working for within the early ’80s.
Burton has labored on a number of films for the studio together with “The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas,” “James and the Large Peach”and the 2010 model of “Alice in Wonderland” over his profession.
Burton mentioned his most up-to-date film with the studio, a 2019 live-action remake of “Dumbo,” will possible be his final there following his unsatisfactory time making it, Deadline reported.
“The factor about ‘Dumbo,’ is that’s why I feel my days with Disney are achieved, I noticed that I used to be Dumbo, that I used to be working on this horrible large circus and I wanted to flee,” Burton mentioned. “That film is kind of autobiographical at a sure degree.”
Burton additionally mentioned the studio’s penchant for widespread franchises akin to Star Wars and Marvel, including that he’d by no means make a superhero film for the latter franchise.
“It’s gotten to be very homogenized, very consolidated,” Burton mentioned. “There’s much less room for various kinds of issues. I can solely take care of one universe, l can’t take care of a multi-universe.”
It isn’t the primary time this yr that Burton has spoken out a couple of studio.
Burton slammed Warner Bros. for changing him as “Batman” director and alleged that the studio deemed his “Batman” films — the primary two in a 4 film collection that resulted in 1997 — “too darkish,” Empire journal reported in June.
“They went the opposite method, that’s the humorous factor about it,” Burton mentioned.
“However then I used to be like, ‘Wait a minute. Okay. Maintain on a second right here. You complain about me, I’m too bizarre, I’m too darkish, and you then put nipples on the costume? Go fuck your self.’ Severely,” he mentioned. “So, yeah, I feel that’s why I didn’t find yourself [doing a third film].”