By Griff Griffin
Entertainment Reporter
Tim Burton has left the door open for a Johnny Depp collaboration.
The director, who partnered with Depp on the likes Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Sweeney Todd, Corpse Bride, Alice in Wonderland and Edward Scissorhands, was asked if there'll be an opportunity for the two to film together again.
"Well, I'm sure there will be," Burton told IndieWire during an interview at the Marrakech International Film Festival. "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."
It's fair to say Depp has fallen from grace in recent years given the much-publicized court battle with his ex-wife, Amber Heard, in 2022. As a result of domestic abuse allegations first made in 2018, Depp was dropped from the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, as well as Fantastic Beasts, replaced in his role of Grindelwald by Mads Mikkelsen.
Depp and Burton haven't made a film together in over a decade. 2012's Dark Shadows sees the actor play imprisoned vampire Barnabas Collins, who returns to his ancestral home to help protect his dysfunctional descendants,
Their screen history together dates back to 1990's Edward Scissorhands, in which Depp plays a robot doomed to live with scissor-like appendages. There's no indication of what Burton's has planned for Depp, if there are plans at all, but as the director says, a future collaboration is well and truly on the cards.
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