Tim Burton after his Alice in Wonderland let Disney know that they can make a lot of money off of shitty live action versions of their animated movies https://t.co/ueMlUR1NK0 pic.twitter.com/zuejdFIrAg
— Guy Maddin Truths (Stands with WGA/SAG) (@suspiraserhead) September 16, 2023
– Compares himself and career to a Vampire as Disney once considered him too weird:
“My coffin was unearthed years later, and then I was then re-staked, and put back in. I’m like a vampire. I’ve been killed and resuscitated many times.”
– Says Beetlejuice 2 revived his love of movie making:
Working with these people again, and seeing them all, it was very emotional for me. Again, just going back to the old, same puppets and techniques. It goes back to the good old days.
– Has lovely things to say about the late Paul Ruebens:
You mention Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. You wrote that lovely message on Instagram about Paul Reubens after he died. “I’ll never forget how Paul helped me at the beginning of my career. It would not have happened without his support. He was a great artist. I’ll miss him.” Could you expand on that?
Because he had probably as equal or more say as the studio, in a way. That’s why I was always grateful. I’d only done two short films, and at that time, that was unheard of – to go from doing two short films that nobody saw to doing a feature film. So even I knew that this was very special and amazing. If he hadn’t been supportive, it wouldn’t have happened.
– Doesn’t care he missed out on Superman and dislikes AI; also misuses “cultural (mis)appropriation”.
No, I don’t have regrets. I will say this: when you work that long on a project and it doesn’t happen, it affects you for the rest of your life. Because you get passionate about things, and each thing is an unknown journey, and it wasn’t there yet. But it’s one of those experiences that never leaves you, a little bit.
But also it goes into another AI thing, and this is why I think I’m over it with the studio. They 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. So in my latter years of life, I’m in quiet revolt against all this.
