Tim Burton has said that he’s “sure there will be” another collaboration with Johnny Depp in the future – but it probably won’t be an Edward Scissorhands sequel.
The pair worked frequently together in the late ’90s and ’00s on films including Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), Corpse Bride (2005), Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) and Alice in Wonderland (2010). Depp hasn’t been in a Burton film since 2012’s Dark Shadows.
When asked if he’s open to another collaboration with Depp, Burton replied: “Well, I’m sure there will be.”
“I never feel like, ‘I’m going to use this and that actor.’ It usually has to be based on the project I’m working on. That’s what film is all about. It’s collaboration and bouncing ideas off the people around you.”
While 1988’s Beetlejuice recently got a sequel in the form of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Burton explained that not all films need to be revisited in a second instalment.
“There are certain films I don’t want to make a sequel to,” Burton said. “I didn’t want to make a sequel to that because it felt like a one-off thing. I didn’t want to have a sequel for ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ because it also felt like a one-off thing. Certain things are best left on their own, and that, for me, is one of them.”
In a four-star review of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, NME wrote: “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is filled with brilliantly ridiculous moments like Keaton’s character quite literally spilling his guts, Belluci’s venomous witch stapling her mutilated body back together to a remix of the Bee Gees‘ ‘Tragedy’ and a ludicrous group lip-sync to Richard Harris’s camp classic ‘MacArthur Park’.
“This film has its flaws, not least some unnecessary CGI sandworms that clash with the kitsch practical effects elsewhere, but its sense of fun never lets up. It’s silly, giddy and a little bit disgusting – just what we want from Beetlejuice.”
In October, it emerged that Depp was being lined up for his first major Hollywood production in several years, in the thriller Day Drinker. The film will see him star as a mysterious day drinker that meets Penélope Cruz’s cruise ship bartender, only for the two to find themselves embroiled in a criminal underworld.
This would be his first major casting since his legal battles with former wife Amber Heard, winning a defamation case against her in 2022. The jury also found that Depp had defamed Heard through his attorney. In addition, he lost a libel case against The Sun in the UK in 2020.
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