By While “Beetlejuice” finally got a sequel after more than three decades, filmmaker Tim Burton says don’t expect the same treatment for some of his other legendary early work.
Participating in a Q&A at the Marrakech International Film Festival (via Indiewire) on Saturday, Burton threw out the possibility of a possible sequel to 1990’s “Edward Scissorhands” which starred Johnny Depp.
While talk of a “Beetlejuice” sequel has been swirling since the 1990s, there’s never really been a clamouring for an “Edward Scissorhands” follow-up despite the first film’s success many years ago. Burton explains his reticence:
“There are certain films I don’t want to make a sequel to. I didn’t want to make a sequel to that because it felt like a one-off thing. I didn’t want to have a sequel for ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ because it also felt like a one-off thing. Certain things are best left on their own, and that, for me, is one of them.”
Burton last teamed with Depp on 2012’s “Dark Shadows,” their eighth team-up which began with ‘Scissorhands’ in 1990 and continued through “Ed Wood,” “Sleepy Hollow,” “Corpse Bride,” “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” “Sweeney Todd,” and “Alice in Wonderland”.
Asked if he sees another collaboration with Depp in the future, Burton replied seems certain there will be one:
“Well, I’m sure there will be. I never feel like, oh, I’m going to use this and that actor. It usually has to be based on the project I’m working on. That’s what film is all about. It’s collaboration and bouncing ideas off the people around you.”
Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” opened to the second-biggest September debut of all time with $110 million domestically, and ultimately grossed more than $450 million at the global box office.
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