Tim Burton doesn’t want sequels or a reboot for The Nightmare Before Christmas.
“I don’t want that to happen to this,” he exclusively tells Empire. “It’s nice that people are maybe interested [in another], but I’m not. Get off of my land!”
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– “To me the movie is very important,” he tells Empire. “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 this. It’s nice that people are maybe interested [in another one], but I’m not. 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.” Cue the grumpy old prospector voice: “Get off of my land!” he barks. “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?”
– Skellington is particularly personal to Burton, a “character that’s perceived as dark, but is really light,” he says, looking back on the Pumpkin King who becomes enchanted by the spirit of Christmas. “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.”
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