Tim Burton: The Nightmare Before Christmas Is Too “Important” and “Personal” for a Sequel or Reboot
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Though recent cinematic history has been dominated by sequels and reboots, Tim Burton, like he’s been known to do, is going against the norm. In a new interview, the creator of The Nightmare Before Christmas asserted that he wants no sequels or reboots to be made of the beloved holiday film, explaining that the movie is just too “important” and “personal” to revisit.
“I’ve done sequels, I’ve done other things, I’ve done reboots, I’ve done all that shit, right? I don’t want that to happen to [The Nightmare Before Christmas],” Burton told Empire for a story commemorating the film’s 30th anniversary. “It’s nice that people are maybe interested [in another one], but I’m not.”
Continuing, he explained that “the movie is very important” to him, which is what inspires his protective position. “I feel like that old guy who owns a little piece of property and won’t sell to the big power-plant that wants to take my land,” he said, before offering an “old guy” impersonation. “‘Get off of my land! You pesky little… You ain’t getting this property! I don’t care what you want to build on it. You come on my property… Where’s my shotgun?’”
Part of what makes The Nightmare Before Christmas so meaningful to Burton is its characters, which have overcome the film’s initially-only-lukewarm reception in 1993 to become cultural mainstays. “[Jack Skellington is a] character that’s perceived as dark, but is really light,” he said. “Those are the kinds of things that I love, whether it’s [Edward] Scissorhands or Batman, characters that have that. It represented all those feelings that I had. I was perceived as this dark character, when I didn’t feel that way. So, it was a very personal character.”
Read Liddy Cudmore’s retrospective on how The Nightmare Before Christmas became a holiday classic.
Earlier this year, Burton demonstrated more of his protective relationship with his work, likening AI reimaginations of his characters with “a robot taking your humanity.” In September, he said that he’s in “quiet revolt” after Warner Bros. used his versions of Batman and Superman in The Flash, explaining: “[The studios] can take what you did, Batman or whatever, and culturally misappropriate it, or whatever you want to call it. Even though you’re a slave of Disney or Warner Brothers, they can do whatever they want.”
Tim Burton: The Nightmare Before Christmas Is Too “Important” and “Personal” for a Sequel or Reboot
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