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DisneyDude2010 wrote:Thanks Sotiris. (Every thread I go to you always post amazing/interesting information!!!)

DisneyDude2010 wrote:Also do you think that Tim will still use the name Victor? [seeing as it is mostly recognized with Corpse Bride]

In Tim Burton’s “Frankenweenie” young Victor conducts a science experiment to bring his beloved dog Sparky back to life, only to face unintended, sometimes monstrous, consequences.

Neal wrote:Very excited for Tim's second stop-motion directed feature. That boy looks a lot like Victor from "Corpse Bride" - and since in the original Frankenweenie, the boys name was Victor - I wonder if it's intended? Will they change the boys name?

Disney Live On wrote:

Neal wrote:Very excited for Tim's second stop-motion directed feature. That boy looks a lot like Victor from "Corpse Bride" - and since in the original Frankenweenie, the boys name was Victor - I wonder if it's intended? Will they change the boys name?

It will actually be Tim Burton's 4th stop motion directed feature after Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach (which is personally the weakest of the set) and finally Corpse Bride. All but Corpse Bride were produced by Disney.

Q: How are you dividing your time between the various projects?

Tim Burton: With "Frankenweenie," it's a little bit easier to do it, because you only have a couple shots coming through each day. It's like a slow-motion process.

Q: It must be extremely exciting for you to return to "Frankenweenie," considering the original short led to your demise at Disney.

Tim Burton: Maybe it'll cause my second or third demise. [Laughs.] I'm very excited about it. The opportunity to do it in black-and-white and 3-D really fits the story. For me, it's the heart of the story that we've gotten to go back to and expand. It's more of a "House of Frankenstein" kind of situation now, but also it stays with the same thing. It taps into the politics of other children that you remember from school. It's still intimate, though. It's still the basic story with a few more elements.

Q: It actually shocks me there hasn't been a Broadway musical version of "Nightmare Before Christmas."

Tim Burton: A couple of schools have done it. I think it could lend itself to something like [Broadway]. I'm just happy it's taken on a life of its own. We've resisted any kind of sequelization thing. Some things are just best left on their own.

Q: Did anyone try to dissuade you from doing "Frankenweenie" in black-and-white?

Tim Burton: I'm very grateful, because I think they understood that that was part of the emotion of it. I was very happy about that, because it's a big part of it. It's a big deal for a studio to go along with something like that. And the 3-D really suits it. With a lot of 3-D, you lose some of the detail, but with stop-motion, you actually feel more of the detail. So all the work that people put into the puppets and the spaces on the set — you actually feel it.

Q: Is IMAX interesting to you?

Tim Burton: Yeah, definitely! We're doing a test for "Frankenweenie." "Frankenweenie" is such a tactile funky project. It would be interesting to see it in that, so we're playing around with it.

Mickeyfan1990 wrote:TRAILER!!!!!!!:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qngB0vCm ... r_embedded#!

I was right; it's gonna be awesome!