Thoughts I Had While Looking at the Miss Peregrine... Poster
Thursday, March 17, 2016 at 9:00PM Just in time for the kiddies' spring break movie fever, we've started to see teases for the new teen-targeted Tim Burton feature Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Based on the young adult book series by Ransom Riggs, there's a feast of spooky oddities that fit right into Burton's sensibilities. However, the first looks suggest that he's playing into his current era's weaknesses. The trailer and some thoughts I had staring at the new poster after the jump...
1. Must we?
2. The source novel (which I admittedly didn't like) suggests a more chiaroscuro pallet and leans to the creepier side of fun. That element looks to be gone entirely.
3. Hasn't Asa Butterfield been 13 for a decade now?
4. This is not the Eva Green action hero I asked for. This also looks like the Dark Shadows sequel nobody asked for.
5. Don't you miss the days when Burton used color in hugely impactful ways? Beetlejuice, Batman Returns, even Sleepy Hollow. I think this is just what we're getting from here on, folks.
6. Children and their Peculiarities: a fire-starting teenaged Florence Welch, an invisible version of my doppleganger, a girl lifting the tombstone of Tim Burton's career, clones of that kid from The Orphanage, and a floating low-rent Alice back from Wonderland.
7. This cast also includes Judi Dench, Samuel L. Jackson, Allison Janney, Kim Dickens, Chris O'Dowd, Terrence Stamp, and Rupert Everett. Wouldn't you see any other movie with this cast??
8. Also, why leave such a cast unmentioned on the poster?
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children opens September 30.
Reader Comments (20)
That poster is ugly, cluttered, and directionless.
You know...when I saw Terence Stamp listed in the cast I wondered exactly how long this had been gestating/filming/sitting on the shelf. I could have sworn that he died a few years ago. Well, thankfully I was simply wrong!
I don't see any whimsy or stylish creativity. Just..ick. That is what I see.
I always find it fascinating the movies they mention "From the Director of..."
They've gone with:
Edward Scisscorhands - See! He made good movies once!
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Film that also had children in it and was also shit
Alice in Wonderland - Money pleeeeaaassseee
@JoFo, Yeah, it gives us a glimpse into the marketeers' minds. Note how they're all Johnny Depp films, who isn't in this film.
Neither is Helena Bonham Carter, surprisingly. Maybe this film isn't so excessively Burtonesque after all.
Jason - Stamp was also in Burton's recent BIG EYES
Dietrich - Well Burton and HBC split a few years ago, so that creative partnership may be over
3. Hasn't Asa Butterfield been 13 for a decade now? YES
PLIS COME TO BRAZIL
All his films recently look like remixes of better ideas.
Thoughts I had: 1) the Internet will have a field day with this and Burton will cry all the way to the bank; 2) Eva Green's star continues to rise and hallelujah.
As heavy a sigh as I can possibly muster. RIP Tim Burton's career (1971-1999).
@Sawyer I would say the career ended in 2003. Big Fish was a solid movie, but maybe you disagree.
I am all for more Eva Green, but that poster is just dreadful and the trailer does not inspire confidence. What happened to the Tim Burton of Sleepy Hollow and Edward Scissorhands and Ed Wood, where the quirk was leavened by the strong sense of the macabre? SIGH. This also looks like a complete 180 from the image the publishers have cultivated for the books, which further begs the question of WHY?!?!?!?
It's really a shame Burton's unique visual style has been swallowed up by such generic CGI nothingness. Looking at that poster, I wouldn't think of Burton at all. Or any director, really. Maybe a focus group trapped in a Hollywood boardroom, I suppose.
One can all but see a 20th Century Fox executive looking at Disney raking in the bucks from Alice in Wonderland and calling Burton to say, "Yeah, we want that, too."
I'm just happy someone else didn't like this overhyped prologue of a book that read like a class assignment: "write a chapter about this old photograph, and when you're finished, I'll give you another photograph to inspire your next chapter, and no, it does not have to flow or make any logical sense, but thank you for asking". I don't really care if it's a huge Dark Shadows flop or an out-of-nowhere blockbuster like Alice in Wonderland. Either way, I'm not interested.
Sawyer and Chris K:
The "career" hasn't ended and there's no end in sight to it. The career has actually flourished in the 21st century, even if inspiration seems to have gone into hibernation for the most part.
Ugh. Tim Burton barfing up versions of better Tim Burton movies. I haven't read the book. It looked cool if I'm judging the cover. This poster is shit.
Paul Outlaw: I think that's what they mean. That Burton hasn't been creatively vital for almost a decade and a half.
denny: I know. This mostly just looks like Wes Anderson raided the CG drawer. I get that directors don't really come out of film school really wanting to be Burton in the way they want to be Scorsese or Spielberg or Tarantino, but...we need a Burton replacement. One of the things I'd love to see said, hypothetical, Burton replacement do? A live-action version of Cartoon Network show The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy. The budget and concept: You have up to $70 million to make a comedy featuring a supervillain girl, an idiot boy and a Jamaican Grim Reaper. Go.
Ugh.
nice post........!
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