Tim Burton has made it abundantly clear that he by no means desires there to be a sequel to The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas.

The 1993 stop-motion musical fantasy movie has develop into a festive basic. It was produced and conceived by Burton and directed by Henry Selick.

It tells the story of Jack Skellington, the King of Halloweentown, who stumbles upon Christmastown and schemes to take over the vacation.

In a brand new interview with Empire, he has set out clearly that he desires the unique to stay the one instalment of the story.

“To me the film is essential,” he mentioned. “I’ve carried out sequels, I’ve carried out different issues, I’ve carried out reboots, I’ve carried out all that shit, proper? I don’t need that to occur to this.”

“It’s good that persons are possibly [in another one], however I’m not. I really feel like that previous man who owns slightly piece of property and received’t promote to the massive power-plant that wishes to take my land.”

“Get off of my land!” he continued. “You pesky little… You ain’t getting this property! I don’t care what you wish to construct on it. You come on my property… The place’s my shotgun?”

Rumours that Disney have been fascinated by making a sequel have existed for years, relationship again to 2002, after they thought of shifting it from cease movement to laptop animation.

In October, Selick instructed Individuals that he may be fascinated by helming a prequel to the movie. “There may be a extra fascinating story there about how Jack grew to become the King of Halloweentown,” he mentioned.

A dwell manufacturing of The Nightmare Earlier than Christmas was staged over three nights this Halloween to rejoice the thirtieth anniversary of the unique launch. Halsey initially signed on to tackle the function of Sally, earlier than quietly cancelling the performances as a consequence of “unexpected circumstances”.

Final Christmas, a dwell model got here to Wembley Area in London, with authentic composer and voice of Jack, Danny Elfman, performing alongside Phoebe Bridgers as Sally.

“I used to be slightly nervous,” Elfman tells NME forward of the second of two reveals. “[Wembley Arena] is such an enormous place and that’s slightly bit intimidating. I nonetheless consider Nightmare as slightly present that ought to be in slightly theatre, in entrance of possibly 100 folks. Doing it like that is at all times a shock to me.”

“I believe I blacked out for many of it, I used to be so nervous,” Bridgers added, sitting backstage at Wembley Area in dialog with NME. “However [last night] was superior as soon as my eyes centered in on everybody, and [I could see] all people smiling. It’s such a cool factor to be part of.”

Final 12 months, Selick prompt that Burton mustn’t obtain nearly all of credit score for the movie, making it clear that he and his group have been liable for bringing it to fruition, even supposing Burton’s title options within the title.

“That was slightly unfair as a result of it wasn’t known as Tim Burton’s Nightmare till three weeks earlier than the movie got here out,” mentioned Selick. “And I might have been superb with that, if that’s what I signed up for.

“However Tim was in L.A. making two options whereas I directed that movie, and I imply, Tim is a genius – or he actually was in his most inventive years. I at all times thought his story was excellent, and he designed the principle characters. But it surely was actually me and my group of people that introduced that to life.”