Summary. The Nightmare Before Christmas 2 has been highly demanded by fans but has yet to be made due to Tim Burton's reluctance and the lack of a great sequel idea. Tim Burton has expressed no interest in participating in a sequel to The Nightmare Before Christmas.
Will there ever be a Nightmare Before Christmas 2?
The filmmaker, who came up with the “Nightmare” story, co-produced the film and created character designs, recently told Empire magazine that the stop-motion classic is too important to him to ever create a sequel, prequel, reboot or more. “To me the movie is very important,” Burton said.
Jack Skellington's appearance in James and the Giant Peach as Captain Jack suggests that he was a pirate before he died, explaining his chaotic actions in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
There is no prequel right now, but Selick, director of the original The Nightmare Before Christmas, told PEOPLE, "There might be a more interesting story there about how Jack became the King of Halloweentown."
What movie is connected to The Nightmare Before Christmas?
Various theories claim Burton's animated movies – The Nightmare Before Christmas (which was made from a story by Burton), Corpse Bride, and Frankenweenie – are all connected, with some going as far as to claim that Victor Frankenstein, Victor Van Dort, and Jack Skellington are the same character, with their movies ...
Jack Skellington was once human. Some theories state his origin is tied to the Irish legend of Stingy Jack. In the story, Stingy Jack deceives the devil. Upon his death, God didn't let him into heaven, and the devil locked him out of hell.
The 2022 Disney novel Long Live the Pumpkin Queen confirms that Sally and Jack were married and that Sally discovers her real ragdoll parents, concluding with the couple happily settled in Halloween Town.
Is Corpse Bride a prequel to Nightmare Before Christmas?
Perfectly coined as the Burton-verse by Collider, fans of Disney and Tim Burton have noted similarities between The Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride, concluding that the latter is actually a prequel to the Disney film from 1993.
After hearing stories about the supposed "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town, an envious Oogie Boogie became obsessed with outclassing Jack as the scariest ghoul there is. His manner of doing so developed into a coup to take over Halloween and rebranding it as "Crawloween"—a holiday dedicated to bugs.
Jack Skellington has made nine cameos outside of The Nightmare Before Christmas, including in films like Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands. Jack Skellington's iconic face and figure can be spotted in various forms throughout other movies, showcasing Tim Burton's distinctive style and affinity for Halloween.
The official film soundtrack CD contains an epilogue not in the film, stating that "many years later" Santa returned to Halloween Town to visit Jack, where he discovered that Jack had "four or five skeleton children at hand" who play together in a xylophone band.
She is a rag doll monster from Halloween Town, created by Dr. Finkelstein. An intelligent, yet inconspicuous woman, Sally yearns for independence, but is repeatedly restrained by her overprotective creator. She is also romantically infatuated with Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King.
Despite those similarities, Tim Burton actually had nothing whatsoever to do with Coraline's production. The filmmaker behind Coraline is Wendell & Wild director Henry Selick, but this hasn't stopped the beloved adaptation of the Neil Gaiman comic from being falsely attributed to Burton by far too many people.
On the album to the film, it is mentioned that years later, Sandy Claws returned to Halloween Town and saw Jack had four or five skeleton children. While not confirmed, it is assumed that given the ending to the film, Jack and Sally got married and started a family.
He's a sadist who has his henchmen abduct people and bring them to his lair for him to torture and eventually kill and/or add to his Snake and Spider Stew. When Oogie Boogie is defeated, it's revealed that he is a colony of bugs wrapped in sacking.
Sally, meanwhile, gets a serene ending. After a time jump — indeterminable, but long enough for her son to suddenly be played by 20-year-old Jaeden Martell — we find Sally directing a high school production of “Our Town” and driving home through a snowy landscape, peacefully glancing at a bouquet in the passenger seat.
Jack Skellington provides a great illustration of the search for purpose and meaning in one's vocation. His journey is one that many of us can resonate with. But the good news is, the restless feelings of dissatisfaction and exhaustion don't have to overtake you.
While the main characters of The Corpse Bride and Frankenweenie share the same first name, they don't share their last ones. Victor Frankenstein isn't the same person as Victor van Dort. And Jack Skellington is a completely different name. And, obviously, Zero, Sparky, and Scraps are all different names, too.
The Nightmare Before Christmas is about Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon), Halloween Town's Pumpkin King who schemes to take over Christmas, while Corpse Bride focuses on Victor (Johnny Depp), a Victorian-era man who accidentally weds a dead woman named Emily (Helena Bonham Carter).
Put simply, it proposes that Sparky from Frankenweenie, Scraps from The Corpse Bride and Zero from Nightmare are all the same dog. Naturally, Sparky would be its living form with Scraps and Zero as its respective skeletal and soul forms in the Afterlife.
