Film director Tim Burton revealed he has no plans to continue working with Disney, saying it felt like a “horrible big circus.”
While speaking about the future of his career during a press conference at the Lumiere Festival in France, Burton said Disney has become “very homogenized, very consolidated,” noting the studio’s focus is primarily on the Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar franchises.
Burton’s last project with Disney was the 2019 Dumbo remake. The director said he realized the film represented how he felt about working for the studio.
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“My history is that I started out there. I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there,” Burton told Deadline. “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.”
Perhaps best known for his fantasy-horror works including Beetlejuice and Corpse Bride, Burton said his trip to France for the Lumiere Festival reinvigorated his love for cinema.
“This festival is so great because it’s purely about cinema, rather than business or awards or anything else,” Burton said. “All studio executives should be forced to come here to reinvigorate them. To remind them of why they wanted to make movies in the first place.”
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While at the festival, Burton won the 2022 Prix Lumiere award, honoring the best in the French-speaking cinema of the previous year.
