I was probably clinically depressed and didn’t know it.Īnd so you can see why Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children seemed like a good fit for him. That’s where 'Edward Scissorhands' came from. I would imagine, if you talk to every single kid, most of them probably felt similarly. I don’t believe the feelings I had were unique. I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world. In 2012, he told the New York Times about it:

That Burton draws on his own experience for his work is no secret. But back when Burton was still magic, his best work - the era of Batman, Edward Scissorhands, and Beetlejuice- showcased his strange knack for outsider stories, especially involving adolescents who feel as if they’re different from the normals, and therefore alone. Let’s be honest: Burton hasn’t made a good movie in lo these many years (a decade or more, depending on your tolerance for Johnny Depp’s baritone in 2007’s S weeney Todd). That turned out to be wise advice: The book eventually reached the top spot on the New York Times bestseller list. ( He seems to say as much in interviews.) Riggs hatched the idea for the book when his publisher suggested that instead of making a picture book with photographs he’d collected, he ought to use them as the basis for a story.

I don’t think Ransom Riggs wrote his debut novel, Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, with Tim Burton in mind. 2.5 Was this material written with Tim Burton in mind?

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