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Tim Burton Addresses Why Dumbo Will Be His Last Disney Film


Tim Burton is known for a great many things in the hauntingly wonderful world of gothic vibes in filmmaking. In fact, he started his career as an animator for Disney. Some of his Disney-affiliated films include The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland (the live-action one in 2010) and Dumbo, the latter he had recently spoken about as to why he would never work with the studio anymore. Tim Burton addresses why 2019’s Dumbo will be his last Disney film.

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In an interview with Deadline, Burton shares how he saw himself so much in Dumbo that he had called the movie an ‘autobiography’:

“My history is that I started out there. 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.”

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As to how a creator feels of what they have released in this world, their emotions involved in the project often come to bite them back. In this case, Burton relates to Dumbo in a circus that he wants to escape from. Dumbo revolves around the story of a baby elephant with enormous ears in addition to Max Medici’s circus. It was through those same ears that Medici had realized Dumbo could use those to fly. The original Dumbo animated film mostly featured an animal cast with fewer human characters, however, Burton’s Dumbo changed particular details in his own version.

He had also addressed why he could never work on a Marvel or Star Wars film:

“It’s gotten very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s less room for different types of things. I can only deal with one universe, I can’t deal with a multi-universe.”

Tim Burton is currently developing a Beetlejuice sequel, while Wednesday is set to premiere on Netflix on November 23.

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