In Frankenweenie, Tim Burton puts a nontraditional twist on the story of a boy and his dog. The 3-D stop-motion film, due next year around Halloween, will focus on Victor, a young scientist-in-training who tries to resurrect his faithful pooch after an accident sends the poor dog to animal heaven.
"[Frankenweenie] just tries to keep that idea of a very simple, pure relationship,” Burton told EW.com. "Mix that with the Frankenstein myth, and it causes problems."
Like, career-threatening sorts of problems: Burton made a Frankenweenie short in 1984, and it cost him his job at Walt Disney at the time. A lot's changed since then, though, and Walt Disney Pictures plans to release Burton's black-and-white full-length movie on Oct. 5, 2012.
See another image from the movie, along with a still of Burton working with a model during filming and notes from Disney's press release on the film, below.
More than 200 puppets and sets were created for Frankenweenie. The voice cast includes four actors who worked with Burton on previous films: Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands), Catherine O’Hara (Beetlejuice, The Nightmare Before Christmas), Martin Short (Mars Attacks!) and Martin Landau (Ed Wood, Sleepy Hollow). Several of the character names – Victor, Elsa Van Helsing, Edgar "E" Gore and Mr. Burgemeister – were inspired by classic horror films.
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