A new film adaptation of Alice in Wonderland is going to drop in 2010 and guess who's at the helm? Well, I guess the title of this thread is a hint.
Does Tim Burton refuse to come up with an original concept? As much as I love his movies, he's starting to be a kareoke director--that's a director that makes movies of properties that have already proven to be beloved by the masses. My favorite Burton movie is still Edward Scissorhands with Beetlejuice not far behind--two original stories and two of his earliest films. With the exception of his animated films (that he only produces), everything after Scissorhands has been adaptations of popular properties or remakes. What are the three movies he's working on or will be working on? Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, and 1984. I very much love all of his movies (except Planet of The Apes) with my other two faves being Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd, but damn, all he's been doing for most of his career is reworking outrageously popular tales that have some glimmer of dark element to them. He's like Ted Turner in reverse: he takes colorful things and turns them dark. LOL...
I can't completely respect a filmmaker that refuses to take ANY chances when it comes to film concepts. And geezis, as much as I like Johnny Depp, is he unable to work with anyone else (guess who's playing the Mad Hatter?).
Burton's gonna end up making remakes of his own material! Wait! He already is! He's in pre-production on a full-length version of his earliest film effort, his animated short Frankenweenie. :doh:
Does Tim Burton refuse to come up with an original concept? As much as I love his movies, he's starting to be a kareoke director--that's a director that makes movies of properties that have already proven to be beloved by the masses. My favorite Burton movie is still Edward Scissorhands with Beetlejuice not far behind--two original stories and two of his earliest films. With the exception of his animated films (that he only produces), everything after Scissorhands has been adaptations of popular properties or remakes. What are the three movies he's working on or will be working on? Alice in Wonderland, Dark Shadows, and 1984. I very much love all of his movies (except Planet of The Apes) with my other two faves being Ed Wood and Sweeney Todd, but damn, all he's been doing for most of his career is reworking outrageously popular tales that have some glimmer of dark element to them. He's like Ted Turner in reverse: he takes colorful things and turns them dark. LOL...
I can't completely respect a filmmaker that refuses to take ANY chances when it comes to film concepts. And geezis, as much as I like Johnny Depp, is he unable to work with anyone else (guess who's playing the Mad Hatter?).
Burton's gonna end up making remakes of his own material! Wait! He already is! He's in pre-production on a full-length version of his earliest film effort, his animated short Frankenweenie. :doh:
