Wednesday director Tim Burton is still open for another film collaboration with Johnny Depp.

In an interview with Reuters, Burton explained he is still open to working with Depp again, a partnership that began with 1990's Edward Scissorhands. "If the right thing was around, sure," the Beetlejuice director said. "I think with anybody, you just, I never work with anybody even with my friends, it's not like a party so I always would like to try it with him or anybody to kind of go; what is the part? What is the thing? And then is it the right thing, is it the right character? I take things on those basis and no others."

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Tim Burton and Johnny Depp's Projects

Burton and Depp are believed to have first met at a coffee shop in the late 1980s when the actor became a teen idol for his lead role in the TV series 21 Jump Street. Since Edward Scissorhands, Depp has starred in eight of Burton's films, including Sweeney Todd and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Their last film collaboration was 2012's Dark Shadows, starring Depp, Helena Bonham Carter and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Since Dark Shadows, Burton has generally remained outside of the filmmaking spotlight. He did appear in one major project in 2019 with Disney's live-action adaptation of Dumbo, which the filmmaker has said was not a good experience for him. Burton explained, "The thing about Dumbo, is that's why I think my days with Disney are done, I realized that I was Dumbo, that I was working in this horrible big circus and I needed to escape," Burton said.

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How Controversy Impacted Johnny Depp's Career

In 2022, following growing controversies, Depp became the subject of immense discussion and debate online due to his highly publicized defamation trial with his ex-wife Amber Heard, who accused him of domestic abuse. As a result of the allegations, several studios ended their collaborations with him. Warner Bros. replaced Depp with Mads Mikkelsen in the role of Gellert Grindelwald, starting with Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore. Despite Depp's exit from the franchise, Mikkelsen is hopeful about the actor's future involvement. "Obviously, well, now the course has changed—he won the suit, the court [case]—so let’s see if he comes back. He might," Mikkelsen said.

Additionally, Disney announced Depp would not be returning for the sixth instalment in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. In June 2022, the actor shut down rumors of his Pirates paycheck being increased from $22.5 million to $301 million to return as Captain Jack Sparrow.

Wednesday premieres on Netflix on Nov. 23

Source: Reuters