“A Horrible Circus”: Tim Burton will no longer work with Disney

Director Tim Burton, known for classics like ‘BeetleJuice’ or ‘Scissorhands Man’, recently told the Lumière Film Festivalwhere he held a master class and spoke about his work with the Walt Disney Companybefore which he said he was frustrated by the dynamics on and off the set, declaring that he would no longer work with that company.

During the master class he held at this film festival in Lyon, France, where he also received the Prix Lumière, he recounted his experience after shooting the live action ‘Dumbo’ for Disney, which he called it horrible, describing the whole experience as a great circus where he, from his point of view, was Dumbo, suggesting the awkwardness behind the production.

With Dumbo, I thought my Disney days were over, I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this big horrible circus and I needed to leave, “said Tim Burton.

“That film is quite autobiographical on some level,” said the director, warning that the company had grown too big, adding to the situation the Hollywood industry is currently in, arguing that everything has become too homogeneouswith no room for different ideas or proposals.

It has become something very homogeneous, very consolidated. There is less room for different things, ”Burton reflects.

At the same time, he mentioned that he always had problems with all the big studios he worked for, at Disney, they even hired and fired him countless times, since he has been working there since the beginning of his career; however, it was with “Dumbo” that the director hit rock bottom to decide not to return to the company.

Burton and superhero movies

During the master class for the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, France, Burton also talked about his perspective on the current superhero film industry, an interesting note considering he was one of the initiators of this genre when he led the big screen to the Batman together with ‘Batman’ Y “The Return of Batman”.

On this he expressed his pleasure that these characters have taken control of Hollywood, commenting on the emotion generated by being part of the beginning of it all, and at the same time commenting on how some archetypes of this genre are not. changed. a lot, like the superhero being tortured or the strange costumes.

Similarly, Burton recalled filming his movie “Batman”, in which Michael Keaton plays the Dark Knight. Commenting on how he amuses him when asked for his opinion of him on the new Batman, to which he does not know what to answer, since he relives what he lived in those years when he made his version of Batman, where he was always questioned That the character was too dark.

Tim Burton has worked at Disney since leaving racing, starting in the animation department, then producing his first short film ‘Vincent’, which would be followed by many of the films that led him to be a cult director. Today he stated that he will not be returning to the company, and is currently working for Netflix with his own version of ‘Wednesday’ of the Adams family.