Tim Burton s The Nightmare Before Christmas was a flop upon its release and a black mark on the record of Disney having made their name as a family and kid-friendly animation studio. The film wouldn t die though, becoming a cult hit for a certain generation of movie watchers (who likely caught it [.]
We’ve all heard them: local legends and small-town rumors, whispers of an eerie abandoned house, a spooky bridge over a dried riverbed, a haunted forest. Some folklores grow from within small communities, other legends span entire cultures and become braided into a way of life.
But how many of these tales are truth and how many are fiction? Where does a harmless winding dirt road through the wood, intersect with a pathway now walked by the dead? And why are we so fascinated by them? Folktales often reflect a shared human experience that become part of a collective memory. Just like The Brothers Grimm tales, which have endured over the centuries, we are still searching for meaning within these folktales, a secret message hidden in their pages.
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by James White |
22 02 2021
While Disney isn t shy about finding merchandising opportunities and sequel possibilities for all its titles, it tends to be a little quicker than nearly 30 years. Still, festive perennial
The Nightmare Before Christmas is headed down the sequel route – for a novel.
io9 reports that
The Wicked Deep author Shea Earnshaw has been hired to write a book that shifts the spotlight to rag doll Sally, while also continuing the story after events of the film. The plot sees a happily married Sally and Jack get their lives momentarily turned upside down when Sally accidentally lets loose a mysterious villain in Halloween Town. With Jack and the entire holiday world itself in peril, Sally goes on a quest to the other holiday worlds including one previously unexplored as the Pumpkin Queen, uncovering secrets about how to save the world and wrestle with new discoveries about her past life.
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