Tim Burton directed an adaptation of Ransom Riggs' book "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children", which was released in September 2016, starring Asa Butterfield and Eva Green, in her second Burton film. Burton is in principal production on a live action adaptation of "Dumbo", with Colin Farrell, Danny DeVito, Eva Green and Michael Keaton starring. Around 2009, Henry Selick stated that he could make a sequel to "The Nightmare Before Christmas" if he and Burton could create a good story for it. In 2012, Shane Acker confirmed that Burton will work with Valve Corporation to create his next animated feature film, "Deep".
Tim Burton adaptation of the Brothers Grimm fairy tale for the Disney Channel, which climaxes in a kung fu fight between Hansel and Gretel and the witch. Having aired once in 1983 at 10:30 pm on Halloween and promptly shelved, prints of the film are extremely difficult to locate, fueling rumors that the project did not exist. The short would finally go on public display in 2009 at the Museum of Modern Art, and again in 2011 as part of the Tim Burton art exhibit at LACMA. It was again shown at the Seoul Museum of Art in 2012. Burton's next live-action