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The Making of Nightmare Before Christmas: How Long Did it Take?

The Concept and Development Stage The concept for Nightmare Before Christmas began when Tim Burton wrote a poem about a skeleton named Jack who longed to experience Christmas. This led to the idea of a stop-motion animated movie, which Burton pitched to Disney in the early 1980s. However, the studio was hesitant to invest in the project at the time.…