Tim Burton has revealed the reason why he has no desire to make another superhero film. The filmmaker, 65, who is set to release his long-awaited Beetlejuice Beetlejuice film starring Jenna Ortega and Michael Keaton this September, directed both Batman and Batman Returns at the start of his career. Burton said creating superhero movies in today’s film industry is markedly different to when he worked with Keaton on the comic book blockbusters in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
Speaking to Variety , the filmmaker explained his disinterest, saying: “I come at things from different points of view, so I would never say never to anything. But, at the moment, it’s not something I’d be interested in.” The Corpse Bride director added: “I was lucky because at that time, the word ‘franchise’ didn’t exist.
Batman felt slightly experimental at the time...
It deviated from what the perception [of a superhero movie] might be.” Of his creative freedom, Burton continued: “You didn’t hear that kind of studio feedback, and being in England, it was even further removed. We really just got to focus on the film and not really think about those things that now they think about even before you do it.
” Burton explained he had agreed to work on the 1992 Batman sequel, Batman Returns , because he felt “re-energised” by the film’s villains Penguin (Danny DeVito) and Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer). However, he was quickly put off working on any subsequent instalments. “Tha.