Jack Skellington Jack Skellington Jack Skellington is a character and the main protagonist of the 1993 film "The Nightmare Before Christmas". Jack is the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town, a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween holiday. Jack is voiced by Chris Sarandon. Danny Elfman provided Jack's singing voice in the film, although Sarandon has sung as Jack in subsequent productions. His overall appearance is a skeleton dressed in a black pin-striped suit and a bow tie that strongly resembles a black bat. Originally, his suit was meant to be completely black, but it blended with the background too well, so
Tim Burton to have eyes, which was a fight they did not win in the end. There were over 100 people working on this movie just to create the characters. Along with the 3 years of work it took to produce the movie. Burton collaborated with Selick again for "James and the Giant Peach" (1996), which Burton co-produced. Jack Skellington, the protagonist of the film, was so popular that it later resurfaced in Selick's film "James and the Giant Peach," and then again in a small scene in "Coraline" where the Other Mother is cooking, viewers are able to see Jack's familiar