{"id":4767,"date":"2007-06-19T10:37:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-19T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","modified_gmt":"2017-04-04T14:58:34","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.annbarlow.com\/?p=4767","title":{"rendered":"A Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Letter<\/b>
\nDear Mr. Tim Burton<\/a>,
\nFirst off, I must say that my son J absolutely adores your movies. Seriously, The Nightmare Before Christmas<\/a> is one of his very favorites. In fact, if he wants to, I bet he can put the movie on a loop in his brain. He is also a fan of the children’s books by Roald Dahl. Are you a fan of Dahl as well? I’m assuming that you are, since you did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory<\/a> and produced the excellent James and the Giant Peach<\/a>. I suspect that Dahl’s works for children resonate with you because there is a darkness to the worlds that he creates. Are you reading his books to your son? If so, good for you! <\/p>\n

Now, I know that you are supposedly busy with doing Ripley’s Believe It Or Not<\/a>. Maybe you are, maybe you are not. What I want to say here is that I know exactly what your next project should be — and that is a movie of Roald Dahl’s book, The BFG<\/a>. It is a perfect book for an adaptation to a movie for children. And, I think that you are the only director that could do the awful giants justice while managing to highlight the sweet relationship between the BFG and Sophie. I think that this is the perfect movie for you — and the book itself is so short that I’m relatively sure that you could adapt it to a screenplay with very little trouble.<\/p>\n

And, after you’ve made the movie and raked in buckets of money, you could send a little of it my way, if you like. <\/p>\n

Sincerely,
\nAnnie, mother of a tribe of Tim Burton\/Roald Dahl fans<\/p>\n

P.S. I don’t know if you’ve worked with her before, but Helen Mirren<\/a> would be a good choice for the Queen. I’ve heard that she does a bang up job playing royalty.
\nP.S. #2 James Cromwell <\/a> would make the best BFG. Also, he was killed off on 24, so maybe he has some time?
\nP.S.#3 Danny Elfman<\/a> for the score, of course, or Randy Newman<\/a>, if Danny is busy.<\/p>\n

That’s all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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