A true masterpiece of 1990s animated cinema, The Nightmare Before Christmas is a cult film for a whole generation of moviegoers. Its director has just shared a particularly amusing anecdote!
The Nightmare Before Christmas: the hunt for Easter eggs is open
Released in 1993, The Nightmare Before Christmas, or The Nightmare Before Christmas in its English version, is inseparable from the name of Tim Burton. If the director ofBeetlejuiceandEdward Scissorhandsis indeed attached to the film, since it is an adaptation of an illustrated poem that he wrote at the time when he worked for the Disney studio, he nevertheless had to give up directing and settle for the role of producer, because he was engaged on another major project: the exceptional Batman Returns. He was nevertheless very present on the set at all stages of its creation, so much so that it is appropriate to consider that The Nightmare Before Christmas is the work of a trio: Tim Burton, director Henry Selick and composer and lyricist Danny Elfman.
Having become the absolute master of stop-motion animation, Henry Selick is a director whose every project is eagerly awaited by his fans. From James and the Giant Peach, adapted from the novel by Roald Dahl (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), to Coraline, based on the cult novel by Neil Gaiman (Sandman), via Wendell and Wild(with a script by Jordan Peele),Henry Selick showed that his career was not limited to that first stroke of genius that wasThe Nightmare Before Christmas.
However, the film still seems to be the keystone of his cinema, since he has never stopped referring to it in each of his following features. In an interview with GamesRadar+, Henry Selick said: : “If you look very, very carefully, you might find that there's a Jack easter egg in every other movie I've ever made. I can't legally say that's true, but it could be true. Yeah, I would say, look at the breakfast in Coraline, you might find something.”
A beautiful incentive to rewatch all his films. It is recalled that Henry Selick is thinking of offering a spiritual sequel to Coralineby adapting another novel by the British writer Neil Gaiman. We can't wait!