Fresh from the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton has played down reports he is set to work with Warner Bros again on a reboot of its 1958 classic which is in development at the studio. “I have no real projects at the moment,” the director told a conversation at the Marrakech Film Festival. “One thing I learned very early on is that until I’m on the set doing something I don’t know if I’m doing it.
I’ve had projects, I was doing a Superman once, I did another project that I worked for a year upon, and it didn’t happen. When those things happen, it’s quite traumatic, it’s quite emotional.
So, I’m very protective of myself,” he said. “In Hollywood, when you’re doing something, you may think you’re doing something, until they tell you you’re not doing something.
You get quite traumatized by those situations, so I wait until I’m on the set, and then I will tell you, ‘Yes’, because I’m actually doing it.
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