Tim Burton says goodbye to Disney unlikely to return

Tim Burton received the Prix Lumière award at Lumiere Festival in France. In a press conference on Saturday, he likened working for the company to Dumbo being trapped in "this horrible big circus".

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As Disney mainly focused on its tentpole franchises within the Star Wars and Marvel cinematic universes “I can only deal with one universe, l can’t deal with a multi-universe,” he said.

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

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2019's live-action "Dumbo" remake is the last Collaboration of Tim burton and Disney.

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“I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there,” he added. “The thing about ‘Dumbo,’ is that’s why I think my days with Disney are done "

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"I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus and I needed to escape. That movie is quite autobiographical at a certain level.”

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Tim Burton’s next “Wednesday”, a Netflix spinoff series of The Addams Family, is scheduled to premiere on November 23.

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