Renato Zero Renato Zero participated in the Sanremo Music Festival with the song "Spalle al muro", and from that moment on his career began to rise again. In 1993 he ranked #1 on the Italian charts with the LP "Quando non sei più nessuno". The following year "L'imperfetto" repeated this success. His concerts would regularly sell out, and he returned to his famous dress changes, although in a more balanced style. In the mid-1990s Zero dubbed the character of Jack Skellington and sang the songs in the Italian release of Tim Burton's motion picture "The Nightmare Before Christmas". In 1999, he sang
Tim Burton's unrealized projects rights. That's half the battle right there. Though it no longer seems like something he'd do. It's a little too horror for him now in my opinion. Though I would love to see this film get made." Around 1995, writer Jonathan Gems wrote a screenplay for a film adaptation of "Dinosaurs Attack!", with Burton as director. However, both Burton and Gems came to the conclusion that the project was too similar to "Jurassic Park". In 1996, when Burton was the CEO and founder of Walt Disney Animation Studios' stop-motion studio division Skellington Productions, he was going to produce the studio's