Tim Burton's New Projects

Director Tim Burton has signed with the Walt Disney Company to helm two 3-D movies: a big-screen version of Lewis Carroll’s classic novel Alice in Wonderland and a remake of his 1984 short film Frankenweenie.

I want to remind you that Burton was awarded a Disney animation scholarship at the California Institute of the Arts after he finished high school. Burton also directed several short films for Disney, including the stop-motion Vincent and Frankenweenie for the studio. He last worked with Disney on 1994's Ed Wood.

Burton’s rendition of “Alice” will combine live-action with state-of-the-art performance capture and be released in Disney digital 3-D.


The project will be produced by former Disney and Revolution Studios chairman Joe Roth with Jennifer and Suzanne Todd and Richard Zanuck. Burton and Zanuck have a long history of working together as producer and filmmaker: Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the upcoming Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street.

Burton’s most recent project is, as I just said, Sweeney Todd, an adaptation of the Tony Award-winning musical of the same name by Stephen Sondheim. The film stars longtime collaborators Johnny Depp as the murderous barber, Helena Bonham Carter as his accomplice Mrs. Lovett, and Alan Rickman.

Depp and Bonham Carter did their own singing in the movie, scheduled for a December 21 release.
(Thanks to The Hollywood Reporter)