Edward Scissorhands climaxes much like James Whale's Frankenstein and Burton's own Frankenweenie.

The Mysterious Stranger's agenda meshes nicely with Burton's own inability to stay still for long and he enlists the locals to help his group build a boat with which to travel upriver.

Burton's own account of his journey is given in Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madinah and Meccah ( 1855 ).

In January 2006, reports emerged that director Sam Raimi had signed up to make a movie based on this novel with a script by Pamela Pettler, the writer of Tim Burton's Corpse Bride.

In the original script, the Stargazer would be a redress of the movie-era Constitution-class Enterprise model ; Probert and Sternbach persuaded the producers not to reuse the movie Enterprise model, and the " Constellation "- class label was chosen so that it could match LeVar Burton's lip movement to redub dialogue.

Tim Burton's Batman Returns ( 1992 ) featured flocking bats, and Disney's The Lion King ( 1994 ) included a wildebeest stampede.

Considering the scale and scope of the effects, which included stop motion, replacement animation, prosthetic makeup, puppetry and blue screen, it was always Burton's intention to make the style similar to the B movies he grew up with as a child.

Burton's Vincent and Frankenweenie were also included.

Allen was so impressed with Herlihy's voice that he used him in several of his films in the 1980s, including Hannah and Her Sisters, Radio Days and Zelig ; his other film credits included Martin Scorsese's The King of Comedy and Tim Burton's Pee-wee's Big Adventure.

He was included, however, in the 1964 Broadway revival, which was later filmed as Richard Burton's Hamlet, in the 1980 BBC Shakespeare television production starring Derek Jacobi, in the 1996 film starring Kenneth Branagh and the 2000 film starring Ethan Hawke, although in the 2000 film, he is an enemy of business.

Elfman immediately developed a rapport with Burton and has gone on to score all but two of Burton's major studio releases: Ed Wood which was under production while Elfman and Burton were having a fight, and Sweeney Todd.

Elfman also provided the singing voice for Jack Skellington in Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas and the voices of both Barrel and the " Clown with the Tear-Away Face ".

However, Burton's personal style clashed with Disney's standards, and he longed to work on solo projects.

While at Disney in 1982, Burton made his first short, Vincent, a six-minute black-and-white stop motion film based on a poem written by the filmmaker, and depicting a young boy who fantasizes that he is his ( and Burton's ) hero Vincent Price, with Price himself providing narration.

Burton's ability to produce hits with low budgets impressed studio executives, and he received his first big budget film, Batman.

Starring Johnny Depp in the title role, the film is an homage to the low-budget science fiction and horror films of Burton's childhood, and handles its comical protagonist and his motley band of collaborators with surprising fondness and sensitivity.

Richard Burton's description of the acting profession had convinced him that it would be better than completing his chemistry degree and so Mitchell attended RADA for two years, performing in the evening with the Unity Theatre.

It is usually attributed to renowned orientalist and author Sir Richard Francis Burton, but the chief work was done by the pioneering Indian archaeologist, Bhagwanlal Indraji, under the guidance of Burton's friend, the Indian civil servant Forster Fitzgerald Arbuthnot, and with the assistance of a student, Shivaram Parshuram Bhide.

They had two daughters, and divorced in 1963 after Burton's widely reported affair with Elizabeth Taylor.

Julie Andrews, fresh from her triumph in My Fair Lady, played Guenevere to Burton's King Arthur, with Robert Goulet as Lancelot completing the love triangle.

Part of Burton's success was due to how well he varied his acting with the three female characters, each of whom he tries to seduce differently: Ava Gardner ( the randy hotel owner ), Sue Lyon ( the nubile American tourist ), and Deborah Kerr ( the poor, repressed artist ).

In 1968 Burton's elder brother, Ifor, slipped and fell, breaking his neck, after a lengthy drinking session with Burton at the actor's second home in Céligny, Switzerland.

In 2000, Ellis Amburn's biography of Elizabeth Taylor suggested that Burton had an affair with Laurence Olivier and tried to seduce Eddie Fisher, although this was strongly denied by Burton's younger brother Graham Jenkins.

" From the very beginning Tim wanted the Maggot to be a Peter Lorre-esque character, and we had a good time working with that and it went through various design changes ," said co-director Mike Johnson in the book Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding.

ISBN 0-451-21628-8 ; a fictionalized account of Rahab's early life and meeting with the Hebrew spies, Book 2 in Burton's " Women of the Bible " series.

There are various examples of remakes which are most associated with the reimagine or renovate terms, and these include Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes, Nora Ephron's Bewitched, Marcus Nispel's The Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Friday the 13th, Rob Zombie's Halloween, Samuel Bayer's A Nightmare on Elm Street, Ronald D. Moore's Battlestar Galactica, David Eick's Bionic Woman, Nelson McCormick's Prom Night, Zack Snyder's Dawn of the Dead, and Kenneth Johnson V. Tim Burton has denied that his 2010 film Alice in Wonderland is a renovation of Lewis Carroll's classic novel ; however, the plot line of the film bears very little resemblance to the original or derivatives of it, such as the classic 1951 animated film from Walt Disney.

While the use of the narrative technique of stream of consciousness is usually associated with modernist novelists in the first part of the twentieth-century, a number of precursors have been suggested, including Persian works of the 13th century and Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy ( 1621 ).

DeVito's work during this time includes Other People's Money with Gregory Peck, director Barry Levinson's Tin Men as a competitive rival salesman to Richard Dreyfuss ' character, two co-starring vehicles with Arnold Schwarzenegger ( the comedies Twins and Junior ), and playing The Penguin as a deformed sociopath in director Tim Burton's Batman Returns ( 1992 ).

The story is given, with a different date, in Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy of 1621, where it is used as an example of supernatural forces: ' At Hammel in Saxony, ann.

The virtual Richard Burton was also improved ; the whole face was animated ( an actor was found with a similar facial structure, all of Burton's narrative parts were mimed, and his face was super-imposed onto the face of the actor ).

Then, starting with 1985's Pee-wee's Big Adventure, Danny Elfman began scoring major films with increasing frequency, including almost all of Tim Burton's films.

Labbe also contributes to Fangoria magazine and is currently doing a series of full-length interviews with surviving original cast members, leading up to the release of Burton's film.

In his later years, Gielgud played the Ghost of Hamlet's Father in productions of the play, first to Richard Burton's Melancholy Dane on the Broadway stage which Gielgud directed in 1964, then on television with Richard Chamberlain, and finally in a radio production starring Gielgud's protégé Kenneth Branagh.

Burton's first original releases under the name Danger Mouse were his collaborations with rapper Jemini, including the album Ghetto Pop Life, released in 2003 on Lex Records.

It would be readapted in 1980 and again in Tim Burton's 1999 Sleepy Hollow.

Burton's father would occasionally visit the homes of his grown daughters but was otherwise absent.

The film proved to be the start of Burton's most successful period in Hollywood ; he would remain among the top 10 box-office earners for the next four years.

As a publicity gimmick, producer Walter Wanger offered one million dollars to Elizabeth Taylor if she would star ; she accepted, and costs for Cleopatra began to escalate, aggravated by Richard Burton's on-set romance with Taylor and the surrounding media frenzy.

When asked about the character, the series producer Bruce Timm explained to Conroy that this interpretation of Batman would not be like the 1960s TV version, but rather based on a much more gothic story line similar to Tim Burton's 1989 Batman film.

In the U. S., the film failed at the box office, but in later years would be liked for Burton's performance, although others felt he was not the right age for the role he played.

He would later star as Kevin in Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

From this relationship, Price would go on to appear in Burton's Edward Scissorhands.

He would go on to play Laertes opposite Burton's 1964 Broadway performance as Hamlet ( and in the film version of the production ) and in Burton's final Broadway appearance in Noël Coward's Private Lives in 1983.

Also involved with production was art director / production designer Anton Furst who would later go on to work on Tim Burton's Batman.

Aside from a number of comic book series published by Malibu Comics in the early 1990s, the next project based upon Boulle's concepts would be Tim Burton's reimagining in 2001.

Though Burton's testimony did not prove that any crime had been committed, the grand jury was so afraid that more fires would occur that they decided to believe her.

Blind Illusion co-founder Les Claypool ( who was a high school friend of Kirk Hammett at Richmond's DeAnza High School ) would unsuccessfully audition as Metallica's bassist in 1986 after Burton's bus accident death in Sweden.

Clarke would teach Burton's two sons the violin, and in exchange, Burton would teach Clarke about the principles of design.