Tim Burton reveals that his next movie will be animation

Posted On July 4, 2025July 4, 2025

Tim Burton has teased his next project after Beetlejuice Beetlejuice success, and has revealed that it will be an animated movie.

In 2024, Burton brought the 1988 movie Beetlejuice back to life for a highly anticipated follow-up. The sequel generated $451.9million at the worldwide box office against the original $99 million budget.

The great success led Warner Bros. Pictures to reveal in April that work on a third Beetlejuice film would commence shortly. CEO and film mogul Michael De Luca announced the news, sending many fans into a frenzy.

However, in a recent interview with Milenio, Burton suggested that he will return to animation for his next project. He has an incredible list of animated projects up his sleeve, including 1993 classic The Nightmare Before Christmas, 2005’s The Corpse Bride and 2012’s Frankenweenie. Often, animation allows Burton to open up a world impossible to locate through the limitations of live action.

He revealed, “I am working on something that’s an animated project, yes. So hopefully I’ll have a script soon and then I’ll take it from there. But it’s something I’m very excited about.”

Consequently, fans and critics alike cannot be sure just exactly what Burton’s next move will be. The filmmaker had also been attached to a remake of the 1950s sci-fi B-movie Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman, which follows a wealthy heiress named Nancy who is turned into a giant after encountering an alien. Burton would later distance himself from the movie.

In Far Out‘s four-star review of Burton’s original Beetlejuice movie, the project was hailed as “An expression of individualism that would capture the imaginations of thousands of like-minded fans from across the world, Beetlejuice is an iconic example of just how barmy and liberating Hollywood studios were willing to be in the 1980s.

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