Henry Selick, Tim Burton Won’t Do CG Nightmare Before Christmas Sequel

While selling Netflix’s upcoming Wendell & Wild, director Henry Selick was featured in dialog with Collider on the Toronto International Film Festival, the place he mentioned if he and Nightmare Before Christmas creator Tim Burton have been ever approached for a sequel to the 1993 beloved stop-motion movie Selick directed. Unsurprisingly, the reply is “yes.”

In the dialog, Selick shared {that a} “sequel has come up several times,” however “initially, they always said, ‘But it will have to be CG.’ And that was a non-starter for me. It certainly was for Tim Burton.”

As Nightmare’s Oogie Boogie may say, “You’re joking, you’re joking,” as a result of how are you going to consider stripping away the stop-motion magic that’s so infused on the planet Selick and Burton created for Jack Skellington and pals? CG can’t replicate the actions that make the cult traditional movie’s spooky realms come to life and make these characters who they’re. Sure, Disney was in all probability pondering effectivity (all the higher to get extra content material launched to dole out extra Hot Topic merch for the Disney Goths), however followers know the distinction—and are keen to attend for a continuation of the Nightmare story so long as it’s accomplished proper. We like one concept thrown out in the course of the dialogue at TIFF, and Selick appeared to love it too: “The idea of a short has never come up in the past… I think that Tim might be open to a short,” Selick stated. “It would have to be so refreshing…such a new take to justify making a sequel, but a short makes good sense.” Selick continued, increasing on concepts for a Halloween or Christmas particular, or “a short that’s about Zero… his viewpoint of the world or a day in his life. I think that’s a fantastic idea. And doable. I predict Tim would back [it] then.”

Disney must have gotten began on this idea years in the past as a result of a collection of shorts starring Zero seems like the right Nightmare continuation; we recommend setting it within the vacation forest that homes Halloweentown, as a result of we’ve at all times wished to see past these different doorways. There are so many characters we’d wish to see once more and extra Danny Elfman music we’d like (that he’d in all probability be into doing).

In the meantime, there may be at the very least a novelization sequel you possibly can learn all about Sally titled Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Shea Ernshaw—and you may see Selick’s stop-motion wizardry at work when Wendell & Wild arrives on Netflix October 28.

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