“With DumboI thought my Disney days were over, I realized that I was Dumbo, who was working in this big horrible circus and needed to escape. That movie is pretty autobiographical on a certain level,” the filmmaker mentioned at the film event.
Burton commented in addition to this on the new Disney projects suggesting that they would have a place in his original ideas, these are mostly focused on the great productions of Pixar, Marvel and Star Wars, for which he was clear about not being able to work on a project for a Marvel movie.
I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this big horrible circus and I needed to escape.
“I can only deal with one universe, I couldn’t do it with a multiple universe,” said the director, referring to the trend that Marvel is promoting of the so-called “multiverse.”
For Disney he made productions like The strange world of Jack, Dumbo, Alice in Wonderlandamong other.
Tim Burton did not stop there, he also pointed out that he does not see himself working within independent projects, since he has always done so with studios throughout his career. For Burton, the spin-off of merlin (Wednesday) which premieres on Netflix, although there are no film projects in the short term.