Tim Burton reveals he once tried to develop a House of Wax remake with a musical twist starring Michael Jackson.
With a variety of other projects having never come to fruition, Tim Burton reveals he wanted to make a House of Wax musical remake with Michael Jackson starring. The string of eponymous horror movies stems from Charles S. Belden's unpublished short story "The Wax Works," revolving around a wax museum run by a mysterious sculptor and harboring a dark secret.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY The property last made its way to cinemas with 2005's House of Wax remake starring Elisha Cuthbert, Jared Padalecki and Chad Michael Murray as a group of college friends who get stranded in a ghost town, and discover a wax museum ran by two sadistic brothers.
I have worked for several months on things that got rejected. [The studio] said ‘no’. Can you believe that? [Laughs] Could A Musical House of Wax Remake Work? Given the largely serious nature of the prior adaptations, some may find the concept of a Michael Jackson-starring House of Wax musical remake questionable. However, it wouldn't be the first horror-based musical to grace the big screen, with the genre having previously seen success with the likes of the Tim Curry-led The Rocky Horror Picture Show and the Rick Moranis-starring Little Shop of Horrors.
With Jackson now having passed, and the filmmaker currently focused on his Addams Family-based Netflix show Wednesday, Burton's House of Wax musical remake is unlikely to ever see the light of day, especially given the studio's lack of prior interest. Additionally, with the last House of Wax remake only proving to be a modest success, it seems even less likely Warner Bros. wants to revisit the property in the near future.