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Witherspoon, Reynolds Land Tim Burton’s BIG EYES
Kitschy paintings of doleful waifs with over-sized eyes always bring back my childhood memory. For director Tim Burton he is given his memories back in the very next episode when he commissioned Margaret Keane to paint a portrait of his one-time fiancé, Apes co-star Lisa Marie holding their pet Chihuahua.
Well, things went something like this: writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the duo who also wrote Agent Cody Banks, first pitched the biopic Big Eyes to their Ed Wood director Tim Burton in August 2010.
Tim Burton’s The Addams Family and Big Eyes
We already had a little chat about Tim Burton‘s involvement in the upcoming 3D stop-motion animated adaptation of Charles Addams’ The Addams Family.
Last thing we heard about this project was that things were (and apparently still are) moving forward, and today we’re here to report that Burton will reunite with Ed Wood screenwriters Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski for this project.
“The project is based on artwork that Tim absolutely loves. The retrospective in New York of Tim’s own artwork showed how much of an influence Charles Addams was to him. We want the tone to be as darkly funny and subversive as the Addams drawings, and we’ve come up with an approach that nobody has ever done before,” Karaszewski said.
And, like that’s not enough of collaboration, Burton has also tapped the writers to pen Big Eyes a new project that he won’t be directing, but will be producing.
It’s a story about: “Walter Keane became a national celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply in hardware stores and gas stations across the country.
