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Tim Burton Says He’s Done With Disney

Tim Burton Says He’s Done With Disney

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Film director Tim Burton, speaking this week at the Lumière Festival in Lyon, France, revealed he will probably never make another film for Disney. His last picture for the studio was the 2019 remake of Dumbo. It’s more significant than most realize. Disney is where Burton was first hired. After seeing his CalArts student film, Burton was made part of the “new boys” team of animators in the 70s that also included John Lasseter, Don Bluth and a few others. All of these people left for one reason or another — Lasseter was fired, Bluth outright rebelled, and Burton was let go after his bizarre, macabre sensibility just didn’t blend with the Disney of that period. Burton would go on to achieve fame through Pee Wee’s Big Adventure, Beetlejuice and Batman, and once Disney was comfortable with his gothiness he returned to make The Nightmare Before Christmas for them, a timeless flick that’s tied to the two most profitable holidays at the same time. “My history is that I started

PETA Asks Tim Burton to Change Ending to Dumbo Adaptation, and They Aren’t Wrong

PETA Asks Tim Burton to Change Ending to Dumbo Adaptation, and They Aren’t Wrong

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Ooh, PETA, yuck! Don’t you know they do bad things? Don’t you know they’re just all about publicity, and there are much better animal welfare organizations to support? Indeed I do. I am not a supporter of PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals). But, in asking that Tim Burton change the ending of his recently announced live-action adaptation of Dumbo, they have a point. “We’re hopeful that in your adaptation of Dumbo, the young elephant and his mother can have a truly happy ending by living out their lives at a sanctuary instead of continuing to be imprisoned and abused in the entertainment industry,” PETA senior VP Lisa Lange wrote Burton in an open letter, The Hollywood Reporter notes. And that’s not wrong. Dumbo was made in 1941, and even then it acknowledged that the circus was a place of cruel treatment for animals. Recall the clown that says elephants have got no feelings because they’re “made of rubber.” That made the kid version of me cry my eyes