Tim Burton, director of Warner Bros' Berlin-screener Mars Attacks!, may exit the Studio system for a planned stop-motion animation production.
Burton compared the planned project - now in what he described as 'the organic' stage - to Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas. 'There's a feeling with stop-motion which you can get close to with other forms, but which has its own energy,' he said.
He said the Majors might not 'go for it' and maintained working within the Studio system was increasingly difficult. 'Even in the short time I've been in it, little companies have been devoured by big companies,' he said. 'It's gotten much more corporate.'
He cited Warner Bros' Batman as a project on which he had been under pressure to introduce more action genre elements. But the personal relationships he had now built up with Warner executives greatly helped the filmmaking process, and compromising his own artistic vision was, to an extent, inevitable when working with Majors or independents. 'The process makes you compromise,' he said. 'If you want exactly what you want, you should do a painting.' AM
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