Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding

Salisbury, Mark [text]

ISBN 10: 1557046980 / ISBN 13: 9781557046987

Published by Newmarket Press, New York, 2005

About this Item

Hardcover, oblong quarto size volume bound in pictorial paper covered boards. 156 pages. Foreword by Tim Burton. Illustrated with color drawings and photographs throughout. A Newmarket Pictorial Moviebook. First edition, first printing with full number line. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy, like new. As new.

Seller Inventory # 021772

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride: An Invitation to the Wedding
• Publisher: Newmarket Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1557046980
• ISBN 13: 9781557046987
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: Not Issued
• Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Films/Movies

About this title

Synopsis

A stunning visual companion to the newest film from Tim Burton (The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory), featuring storyboards, movie stills, and Burton's own drawings.

Corpse Bride carries on in the dark, romantic tradition of Tim Burton's classic films Edward Scissorhands and The Nightmare Before Christmas. Set in a 19th century European village, this stopmotion, animated feature follows the story of Victor (Johnny Depp), a young man who is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious Corpse Bride (Helena Bonham-Carter), while his real bride, Victoria (Emily Watson), waits bereft in the land of the living. Though life in the Land of the Dead proves to be a lot more colorful than his strict Victorian upbringing, Victor learns that there is nothing in this world, or the next, that can keep him away from his one true love. It's a tale of optimism, romance and a very lively afterlife, told in a classic Tim Burton style.

Like Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, this official visual companion showcases spectacular movie stills, sketches, paintings, and Tim Burton's own drawings. Covering preproduction, production, and post-production, sections detail character realization, set development and construction, puppet fabrication, costuming, and stop-motion filming. The book's final part retells the film's story in images with synopsis, storyboards, and lyrics. 140 color illustrations.

About the Author

Tim Burton is the acclaimed director of Beetlejuice, Batman, Edward Scissorhands, Batman Returns, Ed Wood, Mars Attacks!, Sleepy Hollow, Planet of the Apes, Big Fish, and Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. Mark Salisbury is a contributing writer for Premiere magazine. He edited the book Burton on Burton, and is the author of Behind the Mask: The Secrets of Hollywood's Monster Makers and Planet of the Apes: Reimagined by Tim Burton, among other books.