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alright…this is a continuation from my previous post since people asked me questions about where I got my info, and after I posted, no one seemed to have seen it. So here is the article where I got my whole “the corpse bride is a musical” information.
Empire magazine:
The Corpse Bride Speaks!
Burton’s voice cast announced
29 June 2004
Way back in January we talked to the mop-headed genius that is Tim Burton, and he told us about a new animated project he was working on called The Corpse Bride. Made in the stop-motion style of The Nightmare Before Christmas, the story is based on a Russian folktale about a man who mistakenly marries a dead woman. According to Burton, the whole thing is a “cheery story in a similar vein” to Nightmare – clearly this is a man for whom cheerfulness is relative – and will have some musical numbers, although not to the same extent as the Christmas classic.The big news today, however, is that the cast have been recruited, and rather exciting it is too. Johnny Depp will be Burton’s muse once more, as he combines lead voice duties in The Corpse Bride with his starring role in Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Fellow Burton alumni Helena Bonham Carter, Albert Finney and Christopher Lee will take roles, as will Emily Watson, Richard E Grant and Joanna Lumley.
Danny Elfman will also be returning to work with Burton when he scores the film, his thirteenth collaboration with the director. We therefore declare today National Hooray Tim Burton’s Making A Film With All His Favourite People Day, so go celebrate
I read this before. I thought I responded to the last one too… Oh, well, I am looking VERY forward to this movie!
Thirteenth? AFAIK there are only nine: Big Fish, Planet of the Apes, Sleepy Hollow, Mars Attacks!, Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Batman, Beetlejuice, Pee Wee’s Big Adventure… ten with Nightmare Before Christmas
Did you count Batman Returns, and then Frankenweenie??? Did he do that one I thought that he did
How about Big Top Pee Wee and Charlie an the Chocolate factory
No, Elfman did not score FRANKENWEENIE. That was the team of David Newman & Michael Coventino.
At the moment, Elfman and Burton have worked on 10 films together (including NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS, which Burton did not direct). Corpse Bride would be number 11 and CHARLIE will be number 12 (depending on what order you care to put them in). So where the hell did “13” come from? Who knows. The author of the article probably just got it wrong. Or maybe they included STAINBOY or the episode of ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS that they did together?
Ed Wood.
No danny on ed wood. These are the films I came up with:
1. Pee Wee’s Big Adventure
2. Big Top Pee Wee
3. Beetlejuice
4. Batman
5. Edward Scissorhands
6. Batman Returns
7. Nightmare before Christmas
8. Mars Attacks!
9. Sleepy Hollow
10. Planet of the Apes
11. Big Fish
12. Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
13. Corpse BrideExcept Burton didn’t direct Big Top PeeWee. I think whoever wrote that probably included Ed Wood … That’s where the 13 came from.
Big Top Pee Wee is a horrible, horrible movie and if I were Danny Elfman I would be ashamed to be involved with it (he probably is). I just rented it last week since I was going to be spending a 20-hour day working at a circus, and I guess I was just feeling all circusy. The movie just . . . sucks. A talking pig? Pee Wee living on a farm? Engaged? Cheating on his fiance with a carnie, and obviously having sex with her? An entire town hating Pee Wee for no apparent reason? Pee Wee as a scientist/botanist working on bizarre plants that grow hot dogs? A TALKING PIG??? WHY!?!?!??!?!?!?! In Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure, strange, odd, crazy things happen but it all fits, and there’s a beautiful sense of irony to it. Big Top Pee Wee feels like it was plastered together by 11-year-olds on crack.
“Big Top Pee Wee feels like it was plastered together by 11-year-olds on crack.”
Oh, I gotta’ see this, now.
Rewind the posts folks.
Wasn’t this new broke before?
I think I did that breaking.Get over it.
Ryan
*stomps foot*
*tears run down cheeks*But! But! But!
*lower lip trembles*
“But! But! But!”
You sound like a motorboat.”
Nat
That’s one handsome Motor Boat.
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