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Tim Burton is sounding off on his earlier working relationship with Disney, saying he’s unlikely to return to the corporate as a director sooner or later.
The filmmaker attended the Lumiere Pageant in France over the weekend, the place he obtained the honorary Prix Lumière award. He spoke at a press convention on Saturday the place he likened working for the corporate to the character Dumbo being trapped in “this horrible large circus.”
“It’s gotten to be very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s much less room for several types of issues,” Burton mentioned, in line with Deadline.
Burton famous that Disney is now largely centered on its tentpole franchises primarily throughout the Star Wars and Marvel cinematic universes and of his potential involvement within the MCU sooner or later, he mentioned probabilities have been slim.
“I can solely take care of one universe, l can’t take care of a multi-universe,” he mentioned.
Burton final collaborated with Disney on 2019’s live-action reimagining of “Dumbo.” The “Beetlejuice” director first labored for the Mouse Home as junior animator for movies like 1981’s “The Fox and the Hound.” He went on to direct motion pictures like “A Nightmare Earlier than Christmas” (by means of Touchstone) in 1993, 1996’s “James and the Large Peach,” 2012’s “Frankenweenie” and “Alice in Wonderland” in 2010 (together with 2016’s sequel) amongst different titles.
“I used to be employed and fired like a number of instances all through my profession there,” he added. “The factor about ‘Dumbo,’ is that’s why I believe my days with Disney are achieved, I spotted that I used to be Dumbo, that I used to be working on this horrible large circus and I wanted to flee. That film is sort of autobiographical at a sure stage.”
The director’s subsequent challenge, Addams Household spinoff sequence “Wednesday” for Netflix, is due out on November 23.
