If Owen Wilson and Vince Vaughn are the ringleaders of Hollywood’s “frat pack,” then Johnny Depp and Tim Burton head up another of Tinseltown U’s cliques: the artsy, quiet intellectual types that can be seen digging through the racks at the local secondhand shop while sipping javas – BY JULIE WOHLBERG on Boise Weekly.com
Where Vaughn and Wilson’s team cornered the market on blockbuster, slapstick comedies, Depp and Burton have mastered the modern cult film–starting with 1991’s Edward Scissorhands and leaving their marks on the last 15 years of cinema with films like Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Now, they have unveiled Corpse Bride, an homage to Burton’s 1993 film, The Nightmare Before Christmas.
“It was very exciting,” commented Depp of his experience in voice-over. “It’s all very new to me, you know? It’s an interesting and fascinating process. There’s something very pure about it being from the page, into the air, and onto the recording machine. You have that and you combine that with doing scenes where they’re going to mesh these voices together, but you’re doing a scene with people you’ve never even met before, which is slightly absurd but kinda great.”
