Tim Burton says he’s “sure” he’ll work with Johnny Depp again at some point in the future.
Burton recently directed a sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice, titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which was released in United States this past September. He’s now working on a remake of Nathan H. Juran’s Attack of the 50 Foot Woman, a science-fiction horror film that was released in 1958.
Having collaborated with Depp a number of times in the past, their last film together being 2012’s Dark Shadows, Burton was asked at the Marrakech International Film Festival if the two would ever reunite for another project.
“Well, I’m sure there will be,” Burton said, via IndieWire.
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.”
Following his lengthy and highly publicized court battle with Amber Heard, Depp has slowly been rebuilding his career. He played King Louis XV in the 2023 film Jeanne Du Barry before he then went on to direct a movie, titled Modì, Three Days on the Wing of Madness, which premiered at the San Sebastián International Film Festival in September 2024.
What movies have Tim Burton and Johnny Depp made together?
Depp and Burton’s first film together was 1990’s Edward Scissorhands, which saw Depp play the titular character. Depp then had leading roles in 1994’s Ed Wood, 1999’s Sleepy Hollow, 2005’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, 2007’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, 2010’s Alice in Wonderland, and Dark Shadows, all of which were directed by Burton.
Additionally, Depp voiced the protagonist, Victor Van Dort, in the stop-motion animated movie Corpse Bride, which was co-directed by Burton and released in 2005.
