Burton said he, too, found inspiration in those images.
Theyre quite compelling, Burton says.
They remind me of old horror movies, or dreams.
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She protects her charges (called peculiars) from hungry monsters known as hollows.
Shes like a scary Mary Poppins, and she can turn into a bird, Burton says.
Its a weird family.
Jake (Butterfield) finds an unlikely romance with Emma (Ella Purnell), who, in an earlier life, also had a special bond with Jake’s grandfather. “It was nice to shoot on location, to be connected to a place and geography while having people actually floating, as opposed to doing it all digitally,” Burton says of the production, which counted Florida, Belgium, and Cornwall county in the south of England among its locales.Jay Maidment
The orphanage’s residents include, from left, Olive (Lauren McCrostie), Bronwyn (Pixie Davies), Millard (Cameron King), the twins (Thomas and Joseph Odwell), and Emma. “Weird kids: It’s something that I’ve dealt with and been interested in for a while,” says Burton, who previously directed Alice in Wonderland and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, among other films with youthful protagonists. “It’s a weird family.”.Jay Maidment
