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".
The Nightmare Before Christmas asked on Burton's involvement, Selick claimed, "I don't want to take away from Tim, but he was not in San Francisco when we made it. He came up five times over two years, and spent no more than eight or ten days in total." Walt Disney Feature Animation contributed with some use of second-layering traditional animation. Burton found production somewhat difficult because he was directing "Batman Returns" and in pre-production of "Ed Wood". The filmmakers constructed 227 puppets to represent the characters in the movie, with Jack Skellington having "around four hundred heads", allowing the expression of every possible emotion.