Tim Burton Is not Comfortable About How The Flash Used Batman And Superman

Lou Thomas, the BFI interviewer, requested Burton about the notorious cancelation of “Superman Lives” again in 1998, a serious studio manufacturing that was nixed mere weeks earlier than capturing was to start (see Jon Schnepp’s 2015 documentary “The Dying of ‘Superman Lives’: What Occurred?” for the complete story). Burton mentioned he has “no regrets,” as he was capable of creatively commit himself to the mission for an prolonged interval and was pleased with what he created. “It is a kind of experiences that by no means leaves you, just a little bit,” he mentioned. 

However the politics over the “Superman” cancelation obtained Burton interested by the trendy studio market, the WGA strike, and the rising company impulses away from originality and towards automated homogeneity. He mentioned: 

“[I]t goes into one other AI factor, and because of this I believe I am over it with the studio. They will take what you probably did, ‘Batman’ or no matter, and culturally misappropriate it, or no matter you wish to name it. Although you are a slave of Disney or Warner Brothers, they’ll do no matter they need. So in my latter years of life, I am in quiet revolt towards all this.”

Burton’s final film, “Dumbo,” was certainly a Disney product, however one can see some aggressive anti-Disney imagery in it. Michael Keaton performs a conniving leisure bigwig — similar to Walt Disney — who has commodified “desires” in a Disneyland-like theme park. The movie’s climax concerned the Walt Disney character making an attempt to shoot a flying Dumbo utilizing a weapon that appears just like the Dying Star (“Dumbo” was made after the Disney/Lucasfilm acquisition). Within the course of, he destroys Disneyland. Disney utilizing “Star Wars” to destroy Disneyland whereas an icon from the corporate’s Golden Age flies free is a pretty potent series of symbols.