Tuesday 1 November 2022 08:10 PM Nightmare Before Christmas director says it was a 'little unfair' Tim Burton ... trends now
The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas has said that it was unfair that Tim Burton got all the recognition for the groundbreaking 1993 film.
Henry Selick sat down for an interview with the AV Club on Halloween as he said it was a bit disingenuous to market the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas when he directed it.
No doubt Disney wanted Tim's name on the project following successes with Batman, Batman Returns, and Edward Scissorhands.
This is Halloween: The director of The Nightmare Before Christmas has said that it was unfair that Tim Burton got all the recognition for the groundbreaking 1993 film
Taking a stand: Henry Selick (pictured in Savannah Georgia last month) sat down for an interview with the AV Club on Halloween as he said it was a bit disingenuous to market the film Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas when he directed it
But Henry, 69, thought the last-minute decision to market that way was a bit dishonest as he explained: 'No, that was a little unfair because it wasn't called Tim Burton's Nightmare until three weeks before the film came out. And I would have been fine with that, if that's what I signed up for.
'But Tim was in L.A. making two features while I directed that film, and I mean, Tim is a genius—or he certainly was in his most creative years. I always thought his story was perfect, and he designed the main characters. But it was really me and my team of people who brought that to life.'
Henry does understand the fact that any person who played a major part in that film would believe that it was there project including producer Danny
