![]() ![]() ![]() Martin Landau: My phone rang and a voice gets on the phone and says, 'Hello, this is Tim Burton. 'Edward Scissorhands’ is one of my favorite films to watch, even regardless that I'm in it. So I do feel like a very strong bond with him. I just don't know what kind of roles I would've gotten if I hadn't of done that movie. I thought he was like a messenger or from just the art department or wherever. Then I was like 'Am I in the right building, because do you know when this Tim Burton guy is coming?' He was like 'Oh, that's me.' I was like 'WHAT?!' because I had no idea at that age that a director could be someone that I could sort of hangout with. This guy came up and we were talking, just talking about music and movies for like 25 minutes. When I got the 'Beetlejuice' script and I was like, 'Oh, please can we go?' I went on the lot and I was sitting in this waiting room. ![]() from the Bay Area, which is long – people thought somehow that I was very picky, but it was really just this drive. To go to an audition my parents would have to drive to L.A. Wynona Ryder: When I met Tim 25, 26 years ago, I had done two little movies and I didn't live in L.A. Here the actors shared their memories and their unique connection to the filmmaker: Those are people that mean a lot to you, and you still have that connection.” It’s interesting – the people you love, you can see them every day or not see them for a couple of years, and it it’s like I saw yesterday. “It was important on this to have that type of connection, and it made it more special to me. “Because it was a project that means a lot to me, it was nice to have somebody like Winona, who I love, and Catherine and Martin and Martin ,” explains Burton of why he called in his old friends. Though Depp and Carter sit this one out (Elfman is present, musically) the voice cast includes a quartet of prominent Burton alums: Winona Ryder (“Beetlejuice,” “Edward Scissorhands”), Martin Landau (“Ed Wood,” “Sleepy Hollow”), Catherine O’Hara (“Beetlejuice,” “The Nightmare Before Christmas”) and Martin Short (“Mars Attacks!”). For “Frankenweenie,” a stop-motion animated remake/expansion of his experimental 1984 live-action short of the same name, Burton recruited a number of players from his past to reconvene in the recording booth. The ever-eclectic Burton has long been known for his enduring screen partnerships, most notably with actor Johnny Depp (eight films), composer Danny Elfman (15 films) and the director’s off-screen companion Helena Bonham Carter (seven films) as well as several other performers and behind-the-scenes talents. When Tim Burton decided to revisit one of his first forays into film with the feature-length “ Frankenweenie,” he chose to invite some longtime collaborators to accompany him on the trek down memory lane. ![]()
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