You may recall that a few years ago , Disney released a live action remake of the 1941 animated moving-picture show Dumbo . Directed by Tim Burton of Beetlejuice fame ( or any number of photographic film , really ) , the remake was n’t particularlywell received , even by the standards of Disney’svariousremakesover the tenner and variety .
Disney and Burton have been longtime collaborationist for 10 — outside of Nightmare , his remake for Alice in Wonderland arguably helped start Disney ’s remake obsession after it made over a billion dollars and won two Academy Awards . Even with that , though , the alive action Dumbo that may have ultimately bring that family relationship to an end . At Lyon ’s Lumière Festival , where he obtain the Prix Lumière award for his donation to the film diligence over the decades , Burton rather simply say that he conceive he ’s done with Disney after the remake . “ I realized that I was Dumbo , that I was working in this horrible with child carnival and I needed to escape , ” he said . “ That motion picture is quite autobiographical at a sealed level . ”
And in vitrine you were wondering if the human beings would change his melody for the chance to maneuver an MCU or Star Wars film ( what , from either enfranchisement , could mayhap be directed by Tim Burton , of all people ? ) , that ’s a hard no . He called Disney ’s overall dealership focus “ very homogenized , very consolidated . There ’s less way for different type of things . “ I can only deal with one universe , lambert ca n’t consider with a multi - universe . ”
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He may be done with Disney , but Burton is n’t hard up for work . In a few hebdomad , his Addams Family seriesWednesdaywill premiere on Netflix and will be his first TV serial publication he ’s exploit on in over 20 years . He also may still have an dynamic human relationship with fellow longtime collaborator Warner Bros. , or could turn his eye towards another company like Blumhouse for next projects .
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