Tim Burton says he is done with Disney

Tim Burton says he’s done making Disney movies.

The filmmaker attended the Lumiere Festival in France over the weekend, where he received the honorary Prix Lumière award. 

According to Deadline, Burton explained that when he made his the live-action flick “Dumbo” in 2019,he realized that Disney had gotten too big for him and that the kinds of kooky, eerie movies he likes making no longer made sense at the entertainment giant.

“It’s gotten to be very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s less room for different types of things,” Burton said.

“My history is that I started out there. I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there,” he said. “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.”

Tim Burton believes that Disney is now largely focused on its tentpole franchises mainly within the Star Wars and Marvel Cinematic Universe

“I can only deal with one universe, l can’t deal with a multi-universe,” he said.

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After beginning his career with Disney as an animator, Burton has returned frequently, creating the films The Nightmare Before Christmas; James and the Giant Peach; Alice in Wonderland and its 2016 sequel, Alice Through the Looking Glass; Frankenweenie; and finally, Dumbo. 

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