Last week’s cinema event took place in our beautiful country, and more precisely in Lyon, during the Lumière Festival. Tim Burton was present in person to receive the prestigious Lumière Award, following Jane Campion, awarded in 2021. On this occasion, the filmmaker looked back on his long career, mentioning in particular his long-standing collaboration with Disney. A prolific but not always very close relationship if we are to believe the words of Tim Burton, who settled accounts with the big-eared studio during a master class relayed by Deadline: “My story began with them. I’ve been recruited and fired several times in my career because of them. It was with the movie Dumbo that I realized that my days at Disney were over, because I had become Dumbo: I was working in this huge and horrible circus from which I needed to escape. Ultimately, this film is quite autobiographical from my point of view.”The collaboration between Disney and Tim Burton dates back to the mid-1980s, for the filmmaker’s first feature film, Pee-Wee Big Adventure. Thereafter, the studios regularly produced and distributed the films directed and/or produced by Burton, including Ed Wood, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Alice in Wonderland, Frankenweenie and the live action version of Dumbo. released in 2019. From now on, the director wants to take the path of independent cinema to develop his films, which he has never known by dint of working with large American studios (Warner Bros. for his two Batman, Mars Attacks! and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 20th Century Fox for Edward Scissorhands and Planet of the Apes, Columbia Pictures for Big Fish, etc.). In the meantime, we can find him on Netflix from November 23 for the series Wednesday, freely adapted from The Addams Family, for which he directed all the episodes.
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