"Alice in Wonderland" re-imagining. As he told the crowd, it was his in the first place opportunity at the 40th annual occasion since he was in technique school, when the pigmy geek-meeting was a creep show held in a San Diego basement. As it turned out, another Comic-Con newbie tippet his thunder, but since that newbie was longtime collaborator Johnny Depp, Burton didn't mind. "Oh, yeah," laughed the drab talent behind "Edward Scissorhands," "Sweeney Todd," "Batman" and other classics. "He exceedingly saved me there." Burton was kidding, of course.
During the Disney panel hosted by comic Patton Oswalt - the leading ever 3-D panel in the narration of Comic-Con, necessitating a stupendous makeover of Hall H - the director's trippy, technicolored lay hold of on was so well received that Burton was afforded Comic-Con's greatest honor: The fans demanded to take care of it again. But once the world's biggest major walked on originate and waved to the crowd, the fans knew they had received the extreme three-dimensional treat. "I was struggling away, and he walks out," Burton said sarcastically of Depp, with whom he has collaborated seven times. "It was good; that was good. I much enjoy it.
" Somehow, teeth of 25 years atop Hollywood since his "Nightmare on Elm Street" debut, Johnny Depp had come hell avoided the world's biggest pop-culture junkie convocation until now. "I of he came [and went] … I don't know," Burton said, before teasing the fans with another theory: Johnny may still be here in San Diego, walking amongst us in the year's most favoured costume. "He to all intents and purposes could have dressed up as Captain Jack Sparrow and no one would have [noticed]. He's just one of many, you know?
