![]() "Tim, to be perfectly honest, swooped in to be involved with 'Nightmare' but wasn't there by any stretch of the imagination," Thompson said. She also said the same of the mythology surrounding "Edward Scissorhands," wherein the idea was supposedly based on a drawing of Edward Burton did when he was a teen. I don't recall ever seeing it," Thompson said. The mythology that it was based on his poem - I never read that poem. "That tells you the whole story right there. The movie is even called "Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas." The topic of "director" is an interesting one when discussing "The Nightmare Before Christmas." Similar to Steven Spielberg and director Tobe Hooper on 1982's "Poltergeist," there's a general confusion-come-debate over who was truly in charge of "Nightmare." Henry Selick is credited as director, but Burton produced and conceived it, based, apparently on a poem he wrote when he was younger. And Danny had written all the songs, so it was like writing 45 pages." "It sounds really impressive but it isn't because in those days an animated film was only 75 minutes. And she did it in just one week when she and Elfman went on a seaside retreat. With these two images, Thompson managed to create the story for Sally about her need for independence and rebellion against her creator, the Frankenstein-like Dr. Sally was redesigned into a match-stick-like girl at Thompson's request, and she managed to develop her character with just two images as inspiration. There was nothing really to tell, so the story that was left to me was Sally's story," Thompson said. It's a fairly meaty story, but Thompson's issue was that "it was like building a house that people were already living in." Production was underway, animation had begun, as had shooting, and the story was really told by Elfman's songs. "Nightmare" follows Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovering Christmas Town amidst inner personal crisis. 'It was like building a house that people were already living in' Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.
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