Tim Burton On A ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ Sequel Or Reboot: “You Ain’t Getting This Property!”
deadline.comTim Burton is clear that a sequel or a reboot of The Nightmare Before Christmas is not happening. In a new interview, the director talks about what he thinks about the idea of the stop-motion film getting a follow-up 30 years after the movie’s debut. “I’ve done sequels, I’ve done other things, I’ve done reboots, I’ve done all that shit, right?
I don’t want that to happen to this. It’s nice that people are maybe interested [in another one], but I’m not,” Burton told Empire.
He continued, “I feel like that old guy who owns a little piece of property and won’t sell to the big power plant that wants to take my land.” The publication notes that Burton then said in a “grumpy old prospector voice,” “Get off of my land!
You pesky little… You ain’t getting this property! I don’t care what you want to build on it. You come on my property… Where’s my shotgun?” Henry Selick directed the film from a story idea that Burton came up with.
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