Tim Burton Shuts Down ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’ Sequels, Prequels or Reboots: ‘I’ve Done All That S—. I Don’t Want That to Happen to This’

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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Fans clamoring for another “Nightmare Before Christmas” movie should know Tim Burton is vehemently against the idea.

The filmmaker, who came up with the “Nightmare” story, co-produced the film and created character designs, recently told Empire magazine that the stop-motion classic is too important to him to ever create a sequel, prequel, reboot or more. “To me the movie is very important,” Burton said. “I’ve done sequels, I’ve done other things, I’ve done reboots, I’ve done all that shit, right?

I don’t want that to happen to this. It’s nice that people are maybe interested [in another one], but I’m not. I feel like that old guy who owns a little piece of property and won’t sell to the big power-plant that wants to take my land.” “Get off of my land!” Burton said in a grumpy voice. “You pesky little…You ain’t getting this property!

I don’t care what you want to build on it. You come on my property…Where’s my shotgun?” Main character Jack Skellington is personal to Burton as he’s a “character that’s perceived as dark, but is really light,” the director said. “Those are the kinds of things that I love, whether it’s [Edward] Scissorhands or Batman, characters that have that.