10 Movies We Desperately Wanted To Happen (But Never Will)

10. The Nightmare Before Christmas 2

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a beloved holiday movie, setting off good natured debates each year as to whether it counts as a Halloween film, a Christmas film, or both. That there was a sequel planned for it shouldn’t come as a surprise; in hindsight it seems strange that there wasn’t one sooner.

What might be a surprise though is the reason this was eventually thrown out.

Tim Burton’s eccentric direction has been hit and miss over the years, but when everything has worked in sync, he’s produced some huge classics in the shape of Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns and Sweeney Todd. Despite the success of Nightmare though, Burton begged Disney not to move ahead with the sequel, and his request eventually saw the flick cancelled.

Though we all know Nightmare as a Burton film, it was technically directed by Henry Selick, with the original story, images and idea coming from Burton. Burton felt the movie had a ‘purity’ to it, while actual director Selick couldn’t agree to Disney’s condition that it be CGI.

The idea was shelved in the late ‘00s, but Burton’s stance has softened lately, and talks of a remake, potentially in live action, have resurfaced.