Tim Burton Is Tired Of Disney, He Explains Why – HuffPost

JEFF PACHOUD / AFP US filmmaker Tim Burton attends the 14th edition of the Lumiere Film Festival award ceremony in Lyon, central-eastern France, on October 21, 2022, to receive the Lumiere Award. (Photo by JEFF PACHOUD / AFP) JEFF PACHOUD / AFP Tim Burton, here during the 14th edition of the Lumière Film Festival in Lyon, October 21, 2022. CINEMA – Tim Burton did not mince his words towards Disney during a press conference on Saturday October 22 in Lyon, during the Lumière Festival. The filmmaker, who was present there to receive the Lumière Prize, rewarding his entire career, confided in the state of his relationship with the company for which he started working in the early 80s. says he understood at the time of Dumbo (his 2019 remake, editor’s note, see the trailer below), “to have probably finished” with Disney: “I realized that I was like Dumbo, working in a big circus that I needed to escape from”. “This film is quite autobiographical on some level,” he added. You cannot view this content because you have refused the cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices. During his career, Tim Burton has worked on several films for Disney, including The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), James and the Giant Peach (1996) and a version of Alice in Wonderland (2010) . In addition, he said he was “very optimistic for cinema, an art that connects people more than others”. “A few years ago, in Hollywood, there was only one approach, everything was done for streaming, Netflix and television,” said the director. But after the pandemic, “I realized that cinema still remained important, that it would always be there, that it was an art form that transcended everything,” he added. Netflix? “A studio like any other” Tim Burton, whose universe will be adapted in November in the eight-episode Netflix series Wednesday, promised that he was not done with the cinema: “I want to be sure that the next film I will make will really make sense to me”. The director also considers that today Netflix “is a studio like any other”, and that the Hollywood industry always leaves room for different voices, “which can go under the radar, even if it’s a fight” . In 35 years of career, Tim Burton has made a place for himself in Hollywood cinema, with his tender and dark visual universe at the same time, from Batman to Beetlejuice via Big Fish or Sleepy Hollow. The Lumière Prize was created in 2009 by the Lumière Institute. Tim Burton succeeds New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion in 2021, the Dardenne brothers in 2020 and his compatriot Francis Ford Coppola in 2019. Receiving such an honor “is like attending his funeral! “joked Lyon Tim Burton. “In all my life I have never felt so much love as here. Where all is only joy and love of films. Je n’ou… https://t.co/Lbkc4JIbLY — Institut Lumière (@InstitutLumiere) See the tweet See also on The HuffPost: You cannot view this content because you have refused cookies associated with content from third parties. If you want to view this content, you can change your choices.