Tim Burton is ‘done’ working with Disney after terrible ‘Dumbo’ experience

Acclaimed filmmaker Tim Burton said over the weekend that he wouldn’t work with Disney again after his “horrible” experience directing the 2019 live-action reboot of “Dumbo.”

The Hollywood veteran made the comments about the House of Mouse, where he began his career as a young animation artist, during pop a Saturday press conference at the Lumiére Festival in France, reports Deadline. 

He criticized the entertainment juggernaut for focusing primarily on mega-franchises like Marvel, Star Wars, and Pixar.

“It’s gotten to be very homogenized, very consolidated. There’s less room for different types of things,” Burton said. “I can only deal with one universe, l can’t deal with a multi-universe.”

Burton added that he would never do a Marvel movie, although he did direct and produce three Batman movies earlier in his career.

“My history is that I started out there. I was hired and fired like several times throughout my career there,” admitted the filmmaker about his contentious relationship with Disney.

“The thing about Dumbo, is that’s why I think my days with Disney are done, I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus and I needed to escape. That movie is quite autobiographical at a certain level,” he said.

Despite his epiphany about his old boss, Burton said he has never considered going independent.

“Here’s the thing. Independent film, I don’t know. I’ve only worked mainly with studios so I never really understood what an independent film was,” he said. 

His early work, which didn’t end up in the finished films, included “Fox and the Hound” and “Tron,” reports Fox News.

The filmmaker is best known for his fantasy horror films, including “The Addams Family,” “Beetlejuice” and “Edward Scissorhands.”

Burton is finishing up Wednesday, an Addams Family spinoff for Netflix, which is set to debut on Wednesday, Nov. 23.