Fun Facts About The Nightmare Before Christmas

No Halloween since 1993 has been complete without at least one viewing of The Nightmare Before Christmas. But originally, Disney's disturbing lack of faith in the creepy-cute movie almost doomed it to obscurity. Here's how it came to be a haunted holiday classic.

The Nightmare Before Christmas took more than its title from the famous Christmas Eve poem of a similar name. Tim Burton wrote the first version of the story in verse, with a similar rhyming pattern. His poem introduced Jack Skellington and Zero, and Santa was still kidnapped by some badly behaved trick-or-treaters: but none of the other residents of Halloween Town were mentioned by name. Along with the poem, Burton made some early sketches of the characters.

At the time, Burton was working for the Disney animation department. He pitched his poem to the studio as a TV special in the '80s, but Disney rejected it, saying it wasn't their style. Burton eventually left Disney to pursue his own projects. Starting with 1985's Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, he went on an incredibly successful run on the big screen, which included 1988's Beetlejuice, followed by Batman and Edward Scissorhands the following two years after that.

With Burton having proved that his personal bizarre brand was a box office draw, Disney became interested in investing in that weird little story he'd once told them about a skeleton who wants to be Santa… to an extent. Disney distanced itself from Nightmare by releasing it through its "grown up" label Touchstone Pictures.

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