What you may need to know:
1. C’est le nouveau Tim Burton.
2. Adapted from Ransom Riggs’ best-selling children’s book.
3. Is it too late for Burton to produce something truly original again?
4. Probably… next on the director’s plate is a live action remake of Dumbo.
5. Samuel L. Jackson’’s look has been lifted straight from The Omega Man.
6. With Batman v Superman out next week, it’s a good opportunity to remember Burton’s ill-fated attempt to put Nicholas Cage into the blue onesie. Check out Jon Schnepp’s utterly bonkers The Death of Superman Lives for the whole story.
7.We didn’t mention Johnny Depp or Helena Bonham Carter once.
8. Broadsheet prognosis: The unbearable Burton of quirkiness.
Release Date: September 30.
(Mark writes about film, TV and other stuff at WhyBother.ie)
Bonham-Carter almost destroyed her career on this type of nonsense.
Funny… I always thought she built a career on such*.
[* – I’ll not call it nonsense :) ]
She built her career on Merchant Ivory period dramas, no?
A quick look at IMDB… I think she leans more towards the fantastical than the period piece. It was certainly from the fantastical (used broadly) that I came to know her…. but yeah, she’s known for period pieces too…. both then :)
Eva Green
* stares wistfully into middle distance *
She was fantastic in Penny Dreadful.
where are the Antonionis of our time?
Top book!
It really is fantastic. I doubt Burton’s capabilities to do it justice. He sodomized Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Do not even mention that film to me…. I just can’t even……. *sobs*
I think this kind of film is more up his street, it should be ok
*crosses everything*
I really hope so.
I mean, Edward Scissorhands is just so good.
Still, it could be worse. They could have let M Night Shamalamanananamamanomnom do it.
+1
Don’t care. Worth it for the flag museum gag alone.
I thought Charlie was good, it just wasn’t as fantastic as the original.
Get out
Make me.
I will steal meadow razor, how about that?
You win!
( 15 more sleeps! )
On the home stretch now Bertie, don’t mess it up!!
looks fun
They removed Burton from his own bum part after he went up there years ago and disappeared?
It seems like a kiddie version of X-men? Looks intriguing. I see Jonathan Ross’ wife, Jane Goldman wrote the screenplay. She’s good.
She is.
Returning to write the new Kingsmen as well.
Yay.
I thought x men was the kiddies version of x men
The vibrant color pallete is a bit jarring as the spooky black and white photos in the book gave it a Victorian gothic aesthetic that to some extent disguised the fact that it was a YA X-Men-On-An-Island. Almost a pity they didn’t go with that look instead, it would have been distinctive. Eva Green’s phenomenal but it’s Burton so we’ll see what the word of mouth is like.
I like Penny Dreadful
Live action Dumbo…
I actually think I might cry.
What did Dumbo ever do to you, Tim Burton?
Is it because it’s a woman and children that there’s no actor names on the poster?
Sooooo… When are we going to talk/fight about the new Indiana Jones news?
I thought you were joking…
I can’t help but drool every time I see Eva Green. She is just so so damn good in everything.
Not the good charlie and the choclate factory film