After the jump, the new trailer for Tim Burton’s Frankenweenie, which, io9 points out, was the film that got Tim Burton fired from Disney.
Tim Burton’s latest movie, Frankenweenie, debuted first as a live action short 1984. It was Burton’s very last project at Disney Studios. Once the short was finished, the director was promptly fired by the Mouse House for wasting funds on a short that was deemed entirely too creepy for the kiddies.
Poor Tim. I was once thrown out of a bouncy castle for similar reasons. Anyway, now he’s rich and famous and back working for Disney, and he can tell them to suck rocks if he wants to make a Frankenweenie movie.
From creative genius Tim Burton (“Alice in Wonderland,” The Nightmare Before Christmas”) comes “Frankenweenie,” a heartwarming tale about a boy and his dog. After unexpectedly losing his beloved dog Sparky, young Victor harnesses the power of science to bring his best friend back to life–with just a few minor adjustments. He tries to hide his home-sewn creation, but when Sparky gets out, Victor’s fellow students, teachers and the entire town all learn that getting a new “leash on life” can be monstrous. [Apple]
When you’ve been plagiarizing yourself for the last 10 years like Tim Burton, I’m not sure the best way to mix things up is to remake your own movie from 30 years ago, but it’s an interesting strategy. Anyway, I can’t think of anything to say about this movie that doesn’t make me want to fall asleep. Can you? Anyone? Hey, you think Tim Burton and Johnny Depp have ever seen each other naked? Discuss.
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Maybe I’m being too picky here regarding the puppets, but the “boy” Victor looks like he is 20. The kids’ voices don’t match their characters at all. Doesn’t really matter, I guess. Its not like I’m actually going to watch this, but I digress.
I agree, you’re being too picky. Also, this looks terrible, so you’re not really being too picky at all.
So is Tim Burton the goth Aaron Sorkin, or is Aaron Sorkin the elitist Tim Burton?
From creative genius Tim Burton
He’s genius in the sense that he somehow manages to maintain a reputation for creativity even though he casts the same actors to play the same roles in the same movies set in slightly different surroundings. That’s beyond genius, actually. That’s like a fucking Jedi mind trick.
Critic: Doesn’t Johnny Depp play the same character in all of your movies?
Tim Burton: (*waves hand*) Johnny is adorable.
Critic: Johnny Depp can has cheezburger.
listen internet guy, critics doesn’t do interviews with directors *attempts to high five, misses and falls through a window*
You listen here wiseacre, everyone is a critic (*attempts to high five, misses, falls into one of Robespierre’s guillotines, beheaded by the French Revolution*)
Despite being a two-time winner of the People magazine Sexiest Man award, no one has ever actually seen Johnny Depp naked.
Except Peter DeLuise on the set of “21 Jump Street” that one time, but that was just messing around, it wasn’t anything serious, plus no one believes him anyway. C’mon, he’s Peter DeLuise.
Tim Burton wasn’t fired from Disney for making Frankenweenie. He was fired because he was unable to draw other people’s designs ‘on model’. I suppose he ‘Burtoned’ Mickey once too often.
Nerding on. This dog design is cheekily nicked from Brad Bird’s 80′s short ‘Family Dog’ which Burton exec produced as a failed series in the 90s.
This movie just looks… awful. I’ve been hit over the head with advertising, and they show the two minute trailer before all the major movies this year. It seems too dark for kids – not just the colour palatte (still, do kids line up for black and white movies?) but the tone. I can’t see parents wanting to take their kids to see this, and I can’t imagine the kids are going to insist. Maybe any kids movie will make money, but this smells like a disappointment for the studio, and another predictable failure for Tim Burton.
Who cares if 1 or 2 minor things are coppiced you can look at every film and say that hunger games was just twighlight fan fiction gone wrong Tim is an artist and isn’t the one forcing the advertising down your throughts thats the black and white devils at Disney he realy should have signed with wb to do this they are more supportive and it isn’t aimed at kids it’s aimed and 11-15 year old people who like quirky dark stuff love jhonny Tim and Helena there the dream team for a fab film