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The Fall of the House of Usher

• January 1994: Aside from Catwoman, which will star Michelle Pfeiffer, word is beginning to circulate that Burton will direct an adaptation of the classic Edgar Alan Poe tale The Fall of the House of Usher by playwright Jonathan Gems.

Dinosaurs Attack!

• Jonathan Gems, who had previously written multiple unproduced screenplays for director/producer Tim Burton, came up with the idea of doing a film adaptation of the Mars Attacks trading card series in 1993. The writer then pitched both the concepts of Mars Attacks and Dinosaurs Attack! to Burton, and they decided that Dinosaurs Attack! would be too similar to Jurassic Park (1993); thus they went to work on Mars Attacks!.

Superman Lives

"We thought of the idea of focusing more on the fact that he's an alien, and maybe for the first time feel what it's like to be Superman. Here's this guy who's from another planet and he's really strong, and he's got to hide it. What if he gets angry? And Nic Cage is the kind of actor who could pull that off." A combination of disagreements among Jon Peters, Warner Bros., and Burton. "A year is a long time to be working with somebody that you don' really want to be working with."

Locations for Metropolis had been scouted, the original script (by Kevin Smith) rewritten out of existence and an art department hired, before Warner Bros. decided to axe it. Burton blames a combination of factors, including creative differences with Superman Lives' producer, John Peters.

Black Sunday

Scooby Doo

March 1997: Dish hears "Batman" director Tim Burton is talking about doing "Scooby Doo."

X: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117434748 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1116678353 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117750009 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117869055

2000s

Batman: The Musical

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117493526 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117851657 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117873107 http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117875309

Pee-wee's Playhouse: The Movie

• http://moviesblog.mtv.com/2009/12/09/pee-wees-playhouse-the-movie-is-incoming-and-weve-got-story-details/
• http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021268

Ripley's Believe It or Not

Premise

Ripley's Believe It or Not is an adventure film that pays homage to both the Indiana Jones franchise and the acclaimed 1932 horror film, Freaks. The story stars with Ripley gaining celebrity status through his Believe It or Not! newspaper column depicting his search for the greatest oddities on the planet. He eventually learns to appreciate his discoveries as more than mere conquests to be cataloged.

Cast

• Jim Carrey as Robert Ripley: Johnny Depp was considered for the role.

Production

Prior to screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski hiring in October 2004, Paramount Vantage and Alphaville Productions developed a script written by John Sayles. Alexander was impressed by the public image of Ripley. "In his time he was one of the craziest, wealthiest, most famous personalities of the '30s and '40s who evaporated into the ether." The writer continued, "everyone knew him in his time. We are bringing him back." Actor Jim Carrey and director Tim Burton joined Ripley's Believe It or Not in mid-2005 with a planned October 2006 start date in London. The scheduled theatrical release date was set for late 2007.

Pre-production ensued and location scouting took place in China, but in June 2006, Paramount halted the film because of the escalating $150 million budget; Burton and Carrey envisioned specific scenes that necessitated a significant rewrite of the script by Alexander and Karaszewski. By December 2006, Burton and Carrey still remained attach to Believe It or Not, while Paramount hired Steve Oedekerk to rewrite the script. The studio listed the film as a "priority" in July 2007 and hoped Burton would still end up directing.

However, in October 2008, Chris Columbus entered negotiations to direct. Columbus pitched Paramount an entirely new concept for the film; the studio was eager enough to start from scratch and commission a new screenplay. The China-based storyline from the previous scripts will be scrapped. Believe It or Not will be released in 2011 because Columbus is due to direct Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief.

• http://blastr.com/2009/07/director-chris-columbus-o.php
• http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/paramount-reviving-ripleys-believe-it-or-not-with-eric-roth/

Sequels

Ripley's Believe It or Not is intended to be the first in a series of films. Producer Jim Jacks, in particular, explained the intention is "to make a series of movies that, if not quite the truth, are the adventures that should have happened [with Robert Ripley]."

2010s

Monsterpocalypse

• http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118020506
• http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118021940

http://movies.ign.com/objects/073/073965.html

References

• Ken Hanke (1999). Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker. Los Angeles: Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-58063-162-2.
• Mark Salisbury; Tim Burton (2006). Burton on Burton. London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-57122-926-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

http://www.slashfilm.com/tag/tim-burton/page/2/

• Burton on Burton
• Tim Burton: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker
• Tim Burton: A Child's Garden of Nightmares
• Will Harris (2012-05-09). "Dark Shadows composer Danny Elfman on his long collaboration with Tim Burton". The A.V. Club.

Films directed by Tim Burton

19 articles

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Frankenweenie (1984 film)

Pee-wee's Big Adventure

/ Beetlejuice

Batman

Edward Scissorhands

Batman Returns

Ed Wood

Mars Attacks!

Sleepy Hollow

Planet of the Apes

Big Fish

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Corpse Bride

Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Alice in Wonderland

Frankenweenie (2012 film)

Dark Shadows

Big Eyes

Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), a skilled barber, is falsely charged and sentenced to a life of hard labor in Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who rapes Barker's wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly). Barker's daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener) is adopted by Turpin as his ward. Fifteen years later, under the assumed name "Sweeney Todd", Barker returns to London, alongside sailor Anthony Hope (Jamie Campbell Bower). Todd returns to his old flat above Mrs. Lovett's (Helena Bonham Carter) pie shop on Fleet Street. He's told by Lovett that Lucy committed suicide. Todd vows revenge, reopening his barber shop upstairs.

Anthony falls in love with Johanna, but is ejected from the judge's house by a disapproving Turpin and his associate, Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). Far from being discouraged, Anthony becomes determined to elope with Johanna. Todd then denounces a fraudulent hair tonic by faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen) in public. Todd later humiliates Pirelli in a shaving contest. Pirelli and Toby visit Todd's parlour, while Lovett keeps Pirelli's boy assistant Toby (Ed Sander occupied downstairs. Pirelli reveals himself as Todd's former assistant and attempts to blackmail Todd with knowledge of his true identity. Todd then kills Pirelli.

Judge Turpin intends to wed Johanna, and pays a visit to Todd's parlour for tonsorial adornment. Recognizing his tormentor, Todd relaxes the judge while preparing to slit his throat, but is interrupted by Anthony who, unaware of Turpin's presence, bursts in and reveals his plan to elope with Johanna. Turpin leaves enraged, vowing to never return. Infuriated at being thwarted, Todd has an epiphany, deciding to vent his murderous rage upon his customers while waiting for another chance to kill Turpin. Lovett suggests they dispose the bodies by baking them into pies to improve her business. Todd enthusiastically agrees and rigs his barber's chair with a pedal-operated mechanism, which deposits his victims through a trapdoor into Lovett's bakehouse. As the weeks pass, Todd's murders accumulate and Anthony begins to search for Johanna, who was sent by Turpin to an insane asylum as punishment for her refusal to marry him.

Lovett takes in young Toby, while Lovett and Todd's business prospers financially. The Beggar Woman is alone is suspecting something amiss. Todd reconciles himself to unlikelihood of revenge, and ever seeing Johanna again. Lovett and Todd are married, while Anthony becomes a wigmaker's apprentice at Fogg's Asylum. This allows Anthony access to rescue Johanna. Intending to lure Turpin to the barber shop, Todd sends Toby to the courthouse, informing Turpin of Anthony and Johanna. Toby returns, telling Lovett of his distrust of Todd, vowing to protect her. Anthony arrives at the barber shop with a disguised Johanna and instructs her to wait for his return. She hides in a trunk in a corner of the room. The climax ensues, leading to Todd killing Bamford, the Beggar Woman and Turpin. Todd discovers that the Beggar Woman is really his wife, Lucy, whom he believed to be dead. Realizing that Lovett knew Lucy was alive, but lied because she loved him, Todd begins to waltz maniacally with Lovett around the bakehouse basement before hurling her into the fiery oven. Todd returns to Lucy and cradles her dead body as an enraged Toby emerges from the sewer and picks up Todd's discarded razor. Todd, now wishing to die and realizing that Toby stands behind him, silently offers his own neck to the boy. Toby slits Todd's throat and kills him.

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