Tim Burton on the One Johnny Depp Movie He Wouldn't Make a Sequel to

During a Q&A session at the Marrakech Film Festival (via IndieWire), Tim Burton revealed his one collaboration with Johnny Depp to which he will never produce a sequel.

“There are certain films I don’t want to make a sequel to,” Burton said before revealing that one of those movies is the 1990 classic Edward Scissorhands. The melancholic comedy stars Depp, in one of his star-making roles, as a half-created animated human who is left to roam the American suburbs to find a real family after the death of his Frankenstein-adjacent inventor (Vincent Price).

“I didn’t want to make a sequel to that because it felt like a one-off thing,” Burton said of the classic magical-realist fairytale. “Certain things are best left on their own, and that, for me, is one of them.”

Burton added: “I didn’t want to have a sequel for The Nightmare Before Christmas, because it also felt like a one-off thing.”

It’s also been over 12 years since Burton has made a movie with Depp, who was previously his most ubiquitous collaborator. In recent years, Depp has fallen out of favor in Hollywood following his high-profile defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard. However, Depp has been mounting a tentative industry comeback, and it seems like Hollywood is—if not thrilled about his return—at least open to the idea.

When asked if fans could expect a future collaboration between the two, Burton replied, “Well, I’m sure there will be.” He continued: “I never feel like, oh, I’m going to use this and that actor. It usually has to be based on the project I’m working on. That’s what film is all about. It’s collaboration and bouncing ideas off the people around you.”

But Burton clearly isn’t opposed to sequelizing the right property. This year’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice, stunned at the box office. It netted the second-best September debut of all time, opening to $110 million before going on to gross a whopping $450 million worldwide.