Director-producer Tim Burton said he is less inclined to work with Disney now that the studio giant has become 'very homogenized, very consolidated.'
After launching his career as an animation artist at Disney, Burton went on to make several beloved movies for the entertainment company, including directing “Corpse Bride” and producing“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.
The filmmaker added that while Disney still occasionally makes standalone, original features, most of its content revolves around Marvel, Pixar and “Star Wars” franchises. And he’s not interested in helming a Marvel movie. “It’s gotten to be very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s less room for different types of things,” he said. “I can only deal with one universe, l can’t deal with a multi-universe.”
At this year’s Lumière Festival, Burton was awarded the prestigious Prix Lumière. His first directorial effort since
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