Dumbo’s 2019 Remake May Be Tim Burton’s Final Disney Movie

You could recall that just a few years in the past, Disney launched a reside motion remake of the 1941 animated movie Dumbo. Directed by Tim Burton of Beetlejuice fame (or any variety of movies, actually), the remake wasn’t significantly properly obtained, even by the requirements of Disney’s varied remakes over the last decade and alter.

Disney and Burton have been longtime collaborators for many years—outdoors of Nightmare, his remake for Alice in Wonderland arguably helped begin Disney’s remake obsession after it revamped a billion {dollars} and gained two Academy Awards. Even with that, although, the reside motion Dumbo which will have in the end introduced that relationship to an finish. At Lyon’s Lumière Festival, the place he obtained the Prix Lumière award for his contribution to the movie business over the a long time, Burton quite plainly mentioned that he believes he’s carried out with Disney after the remake. “I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus and I needed to escape,” he mentioned. “That movie is quite autobiographical at a certain level.”

And in case you had been questioning if the person would change his tune for the prospect to direct an MCU or Star Wars film (what, from both franchise, may presumably be directed by Tim Burton, of all individuals?), that’s a tough no. He known as Disney’s general franchise focus “very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s less room for different types of things. “I can only deal with one universe, l can’t deal with a multi-universe.”

He could also be carried out with Disney, however Burton isn’t laborious up for work. In just a few weeks, his Addams Family sequence Wednesday will premiere on Netflix and might be his first TV sequence he’s labored on in over 20 years. He additionally should still have an energetic relationship with fellow longtime collaborator Warner Bros., or may flip his eye in the direction of one other firm like Blumhouse for future tasks.

[by way of Deadline]

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