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's unrealized projects Tim Burton's unrealized projects The following is a list of unproduced Tim Burton projects, in roughly chronological order. During a career that has spanned over 30 years, Tim Burton has worked on a number of projects which never progressed beyond the pre-production stage under his direction. Burton was originally attached to direct the 1985 film "After Hours", but Martin Scorsese read the script at a time when he was unable to get financial backing to complete "The Last Temptation of Christ", which was finally completed in 1988; Burton gladly stepped aside when Scorsese expressed interest in directing "After Hours". After