Tim Burton may have reawakened the Ghost With the Most in the recently released sequel to his 1988 comedy-horror film “Beetlejuice,” but that didn’t seem to convince the filmmaker to revisit some of his other classics.
During a Q&A at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Saturday (via IndieWire), Burton dismissed the possibility of developing a sequel to 1990’s “Edward Scissorhands,” which starred Johnny Depp as the titular role.
“There are certain films I don’t want to make a sequel to,” Burton said. “I didn’t want to make a sequel to that because it felt like a one-off thing. I didn’t want to have a sequel for ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ because it also felt like a one-off thing. Certain things are best left on their own, and that, for me, is one of them.”
Although Burton hasn’t directed a film involving Depp since 2012’s “Dark Shadows,” Depp remains one of Burton’s most frequent collaborators to date. In addition to “Edward Scissorhands” and “Dark Shadows,” Depp and Burton worked together on “Ed Wood” (1994), “Sleepy Hollow” (1999), “Corpse Bride” (2005), “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory” (2005), “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” (2007) and “Alice in Wonderland” (2010).
When asked if he sees another collaboration with Depp, Burton replied, “Well, I’m sure there will be.”
He added, “I never feel like, oh, I’m going to use this and that actor. It usually has to be based on the project I’m working on. That’s what film is all about. It’s collaboration and bouncing ideas off the people around you.”
Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” released in September this year, was a hit at the box office. The film opened to the second-biggest September debut of all time with $110 million domestically, ultimately grossing more than $450 million at the global box office.
The “Beetlejuice” sequel — which reunited Burton with original stars Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara — also mainly received positive reviews from critics and audiences. (The film currently has a 76% “fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes and received a “B+” CinemaScore.)
In an interview with Variety, Burton spoke about revisiting the world of “Beetlejuice” for the sequel. “It’s not like ‘Big Fish,’ but I don’t think I could have done this earlier because, first of all, I had no idea to do a sequel — again, this is before the time where those things were talked about. But to revisit it now was nice, because Lydia was a character that I always felt strongly about,” he said. “What happens to people 35 years later? Where do they go? What’s their journey? And what happened to the Deetz family? This feeling about it was quite simple for me and emotional. That became the anchor of where it goes from there. When you go from being a cool teenager to an adult, what journey do you take?”
Burton continued, “And then with all these people I love working with — Michael Keaton and Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder — it was just very strange but beautiful. And with the new cast, it felt emotional but it also felt new. And I didn’t watch the original again, mostly because I never knew why it was successful to begin with. So I just treated it as something that I could not think about anything more than that. Just dive in and do it quickly — like we did in the past.”
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