Visionary filmmaker Tim Burton is declaring that his days of working with Disney are done.
It is the end of a working relationship between the two that goes back over 40 years, when Burton was an animator on the Disney films “The Fox and the Hound” and “Tron.”
Burton made the announcement during a news conference at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, France, on Saturday, according to Deadline.
Burton lamented that while some individual projects might rarely get the green light from Disney, the studio is now focused on major franchises like Marvel, Star Wars and the Pixar brand.
“It’s gotten to be very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s less room for different types of things,” Burton said. He added that he could not do a Marvel movie: “I can only deal with one universe. I can’t deal with a multi-universe.”
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Burton described his work on the live-action adaptation of “Dumbo” as the catalyst for his moving on from Disney.
“My history is that I started out there. I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there. The thing about ‘Dumbo,’ is that’s why I think my days with Disney are done, I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus and I needed to escape. That movie is quite autobiographical at a certain level,” he said.
Tim Burton has always followed the beat of his own drum. During his original run at Disney he produced “Vincent” and “Frankenweenie”: two animated shorts that the company all but disowned.
After getting fired by Disney for seemingly wasting company resources, frustration led Burton to Warner Brothers. It was there that his big break came in 1985 with the release of “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure.”
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The success of that film propelled Burton to A-list director status. It was followed by the fantasy horror comedy “Beetlejuice,” and Burton was fully tapping the vein with his signature visuals and sense of macabre humor.
And then came 1989’s mega-event motion picture “Batman.”…
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