A Letter
Dear Mr. Tim Burton,
First off, I must say that my son J absolutely adores your movies. Seriously, The Nightmare Before Christmas is one of his very favorites. In fact, if he wants to, I bet he can put the movie on a loop in his brain. He is also a fan of the children’s books by Roald Dahl. Are you a fan of Dahl as well? I’m assuming that you are, since you did Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and produced the excellent James and the Giant Peach. I suspect that Dahl’s works for children resonate with you because there is a darkness to the worlds that he creates. Are you reading his books to your son? If so, good for you!

Now, I know that you are supposedly busy with doing Ripley’s Believe It Or Not. Maybe you are, maybe you are not. What I want to say here is that I know exactly what your next project should be — and that is a movie of Roald Dahl’s book, The BFG. It is a perfect book for an adaptation to a movie for children. And, I think that you are the only director that could do the awful giants justice while managing to highlight the sweet relationship between the BFG and Sophie. I think that this is the perfect movie for you — and the book itself is so short that I’m relatively sure that you could adapt it to a screenplay with very little trouble.

And, after you’ve made the movie and raked in buckets of money, you could send a little of it my way, if you like.

Sincerely,
Annie, mother of a tribe of Tim Burton/Roald Dahl fans

P.S. I don’t know if you’ve worked with her before, but Helen Mirren would be a good choice for the Queen. I’ve heard that she does a bang up job playing royalty.
P.S. #2 James Cromwell would make the best BFG. Also, he was killed off on 24, so maybe he has some time?
P.S.#3 Danny Elfman for the score, of course, or Randy Newman, if Danny is busy.

That’s all.