Whereas auteur Tim Burton doesn’t wish to revisit initiatives like Edward Scissorhands for any potential sequels, he stated he feels optimistic he’ll return to the beloved movie’s main man, Johnny Depp.
“There are specific movies I don’t wish to make a sequel to,” he stated on the Marrakech Worldwide Movie Pageant following the field workplace success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, per IndieWire. “I didn’t wish to make a sequel to [Scissorhands] as a result of it felt like a one-off factor. I didn’t wish to have a sequel for The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas as a result of it additionally felt like a one-off factor. Sure issues are greatest left on their very own and that for me is one in all them.”
When requested if there could be additional collaborations with frequent display associate Depp — whom he’s directed in a slate of movies together with Corpse Bride, Sweeney Todd and Ed Wooden — he answered, “Effectively, I’m positive there will probably be.”
He continued, “I by no means really feel like, ‘Oh, I’m going to make use of this and that actor.’ It normally needs to be based mostly on the venture I’m engaged on. That’s what movie is all about. It’s collaboration and bouncing concepts off the individuals round you.”
Depp has been making efforts to resurrect his profession following a protracted and contentious courtroom battle with actress and ex-wife Amber Heard, throughout which a jury unanimously discovered he was defamed. After Heard filed an enchantment of the decision, the 2 introduced individually that the case had been settled with the cash paid by Heard going to charity. The case stemmed from a 2018 Washington Submit op-ed through which Heard stated she was a survivor of home violence with out mentioning Depp’s identify. The Virginia battle additionally adopted a separate libel case within the U.Okay. over The Solar‘s calling Depp a “wife-beater”; the choose sided with the publication in 2020, after which Depp was requested to resign from Warner Bros.’ Implausible Beasts franchise.
Since then, Depp has tried to, considerably efficiently, rehabilitate his picture in Hollywood and with the general public at massive. He made a shock look on the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, launched into a 2023 European tour with band Hollywood Vampires and was seen in Savage X Fenty’s trend present.
Extra not too long ago, his second directorial effort Modi, starring Al Pacino, headlined Spain’s San Sebastián Worldwide Movie Pageant, happening to Rome Movie Pageant the place he acquired a lifetime achievement award. He’s additionally set to reunite with Pirates of the Caribbean co-star Penelope Cruz in Lionsgate’s upcoming Day Drinker. Moreover, filming for Terry Gilliam’s The Carnival on the Finish of Days, reverse Adam Driver, Jeff Bridges and Jason Momoa is set to commence in January. Earlier big-screen movie comebacks — Minamata (2020) and Jeanne du Barry (2023) — have been largely reviewed mixed-to-negatively and didn’t produce huge splashes.
