Corpse Bride trailer up
The trailer for Corpse Bride is now up at Apple. Before you ask, I don’t know if this is a teaser or the final trailer. It does a good job setting up what the movie is about, so I’m not sure they’ll need to cut a longer version.
Corpse Bride is the second animated movie I’ve worked on, the first being Titan A.E.. Unlike Titan, which was a combination of traditional and computer animation, Corpse Bride was done with stop-motion animation like Tim Burton’s earlier The Nightmare Before Christmas. The artistry behind the animation is painstaking — each frame you shoot is pretty much the way it’s going to be in the final film.
From a writer’s perspective, there’s not a lot of difference between writing for animation and writing a normal live-action movie. Where you feel the difference is in production and post. In “normal” movies, it’s not too hard to re-arrange a scene, or change a line of dialogue in editing. With this technique, there’s less wiggle room. Once the shutter clicks, you’re pretty much locked. In some ways, that’s liberating. It means there’s a lot more attention to the details from the outset.
The movie comes out at Halloween in the States. (I’m not sure about the rest of the world.)
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January 21st, 2005 at 10:48 pm
Cool trailer (or teaser). Out of curiousity, what was your role on Corpse Bride? It doesn’t seem to be listed under your IMDB entry. You seem to be doing quite a bit or work with Tim Burton recently (but then so does Johnny Depp)…
January 22nd, 2005 at 11:41 am
Tim Burton seems to be doing a lot of work himself recently. He’s becoming almost a regular as Spielberg. Or maybe I haven’t paid that much attention to him until recently. Seemed he used to go 3-4 years between films but now is on ex-lax or something.
January 22nd, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Troy,
I was the last of several writers on the project. A lot of what I did was dialogue, but there’s also one or two songs for which I did the lyrics. IMDb isn’t especially accurate on writing credits until the movie comes out.
January 23rd, 2005 at 11:48 pm
Hey John, you brought up Titan A.E. It was one of my favorite flicks that I felt was completely unappreciated when it came out. What kind of relationship did you have, if any at all, working with Joss Whedon and Ben Edlund, both writers that I truly respect (you’re of course right up there :) ). How is it like collaborating with with two other guys?
January 24th, 2005 at 10:19 am
Americo,
Joss Whedon, Ben Edlund and I all worked at different times, so we never got to know each other. (In fact, I’ve still never met either of them.) I don’t know if Edlund started working with Whedon based on Titan, or if that was just a coincidence. I’m sure some Mutant Enemy thread would tell you.
January 24th, 2005 at 8:39 pm
How’s that like, as far as you as a writer; not even meeting the guys that your name is next to on something you helped create? I know every time I write, I have a strong connection to the material, and I’m very picky on what the end result is. Does that connection get pacified by the paycheck?
January 24th, 2005 at 10:28 pm
So, will you get credit for Corpse Bride? When you are the last of many writers on a certain project or a Script Doctor, what is the most that you can contribute. New scenes?
January 25th, 2005 at 10:11 am
I’ll probably end up getting shared credit on CB. There’s still a while before they figure that out.
As far as Americo’s concern, keep in mind that on Titan AE, all three of us (Whedon, Edlund and myself) were working months and even years apart, and the underlying story wasn’t any of ours. Rewriting a studio project is sort of like being a nanny: you genuinely care about it, but you recognize it isn’t really yours.
January 25th, 2005 at 3:21 pm
I would freak out if I was on a rewrite job for a studio and I could only find a handful of little things to change. Freak out that the studio would say, “What are we paying you for?â€?
But I guess you can always find something wrong film a film or screenplay. That’s what critics are for!
April 10th, 2005 at 2:11 pm
How come you work on all the best films? ;-)
Corpse Bride looks absolutely fantastic. What I’ve seen of it looks absolutely amazing…
Oh, and Titan AE was very definately under-rated!
May 10th, 2005 at 12:51 am
It looks soo cool!! I am soo gonna watch it!But Tims film the new willy wonka movie looks crap…
May 10th, 2005 at 3:49 am
Sock Queen: I assume there’s a certain sense of good natured humour in your post….
If not, then you might want to check out this post ;)
June 15th, 2005 at 2:49 pm
Looks like the offical Corpse Bride website has been updated.
July 7th, 2005 at 4:16 pm
You said you wrote some lyrics for songs, do you know if Danny Elfman did the music for this film?
August 7th, 2005 at 4:29 am
I ABSOLUTLEY LOVE TIM BURTON !! all his movies are so very interesting i love the nightmare b4 chritmas n hope that corpse bride is just as good n i know it will be ..
theres beetle juice ,edward sissor hands ,nightmare b4 christmas …. all of these ones i have seen have been spectacular n im hoping that willy wonka n corpse bride are too …
October 2nd, 2005 at 7:31 am
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October 12th, 2005 at 8:35 pm
Wow, student loans’ spam is so haunting, makes me wish I was in the market for one. I’ve seen Corpse Bride twice now, a beauiful, enchanting film. Horror, romance, comedy and songs–what’s not to love?
February 23rd, 2006 at 11:35 am
the nbc rules!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
March 9th, 2006 at 4:57 pm
I absolutly LOVE all of Tim burtons work and i just want to say thank you Tim Burton for all of your work. It is so awsome. Hopefully You will make some more Movies for all of us to watch. I absolutly enjoy and adore it. Thanks again…
Love, ~JJ~
June 12th, 2006 at 1:29 am
the movie was very good but it did get abit boring. the puppets were good as i have found out about them in class.
November 17th, 2007 at 5:52 am
very nice film indeed!
i was wondering, i’m a belgian student (@ RITS) the belgian film school. and I have to do an analysis on Corpse bride , especialy on the storyboard/script => actual film. the only problem is I can’t find the script/scenario/storyboard. can anyone help me?
thx
Sander, brussels Belgium