Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I'm sure the Frog is upset about having his show schedule shorten again!" He's no spring chicken, he probably appreciates a limited schedule.
Originally Posted By CuriousConstance "The director of Coraline, Henry Selick, worked on Nightmare Before Christmas with Tim Burton and went to Cal Arts with him. Also, Tim made the original Frankenweenie while working for Disney and was fired because it was too dark and scary." Interesting! Now Disney is wishing they wouldn't have done that I bet.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen I hadn't heard that Time was "fired". What I did hear was that he really didn't like the stuff they were having him work on. Try to picture Burton working on "The Fox and the Hound". The "cute, cuddly" "Disney" characters just were not his thing. He also worked on visual development on "The Black Cauldron" and was teamed with a young Andreas Deja, developing character and creature concepts that for the most part never made it into the movie. Given what happened with that film, I don't see how using some of Tim's stuff couldn't have been an improvement. But it was then in the early eighties that he made the "Frankenweenie" short, the short "Vincent", which actually was stop motion, and also when he developed the first idea for Jack Skellington and NBC. obviously, if Disney fired him he must have landed on his feet, since Warner's must have hired him shortly thereafter with "Pee Wee's Big Adventure" opening in 1985, and of course becoming an instant cult classic. By the nineties, Disney was able to woo him back to develop NBC into the feature, which he did, only on the condition that they let him make "Ed Wood" and that they let him make that one in black and white as well. I don't think Disney is "wishing" that they hadn't fired him, since this would have happened a looong time ago,even pre-Eisner, and clearly, they must have let bygones be bygones by now, since they've got him back on board with all these other projects. Next up for Tim will be the feature film "Big Eyes", a bio-pic about Margaret and Walter Keane, the artist who back in the fifties/sixties painted those pieces with the children with the features described in the films title. It's from the same screenwriting team as "Ed Wood". NOW are you getting the heeby jeebies? As far as Frankenweenie being an obscure property for some people, does EVERY blockbuster have to be a sequel/prequel/reboot/kid lit adaptation, or big screen version of a vintage television show? Look at Pixar. With the exception of the sequels to "Toy Story", "Cars" and Monsters Inc. prequel, everything they have done has been original and has found a huge audience. Also, I'm excited to see stop motion making a comeback in this seemingly endless wave of CGI coming off the assembly line.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Interesting! Now Disney is wishing they wouldn't have done that I bet." It is interesting how things work themselves out. Tim Burton leaving Disney when he did was probably for the best (that probably wasn't the best time to be there creatively). And his collaborations since probably are too. "Next up for Tim will be the feature film "Big Eyes", a bio-pic about Margaret and Walter Keane, the artist who back in the fifties/sixties painted those pieces with the children with the features described in the films title. It's from the same screenwriting team as 'Ed Wood'. NOW are you getting the heeby jeebies?" This is why I love Tim Burton. Not everything works, but who else would come up with this? Brilliant. Even if it's a failure as movie, as an idea I love it.
Originally Posted By Nobody Hmmm.... Looks like "Big Eyes" has Burton as a producer, and Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski as directors (and writers). I'm sure they've got a set vision for this, and I'm really curious as to how it will all come out.
Originally Posted By 9oldmen >>Hmmm.... Looks like "Big Eyes" has Burton as a producer, and Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski as directors (and writers). I'm sure they've got a set vision for this, and I'm really curious as to how it will all come out. << I guess they'll be seeing that vision with "Big Eyes". One project that Tim Burton was going to do with Scott and Larry was a bio-pic about Robert (Believe it or Not!) Ripley, with Jim Carrey in the main role. It's probably not going to happen at this point, but I think it's fun to imagine these movies that went into development and never happened. It leaves everybody with their own interpretation of what it would have been like.
