Tim Burton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame

Tim Burton received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

The 66-year-old director and artist, whose credits include “Edward Scissorhands”, “Beetlejuice”, “Mars Attacks”, “Batman” and “Alice Through the Looking Glass”, finally received a street tribute on Tuesday (03.09.24).

Burton was joined at the ceremony by the stars of his latest film “Beetlejuice,” Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder, as well as his girlfriend, actress Monica Bellucci, 59.

In one of his speeches, the 72-year-old Keaton recalled that Burton took a chance and cast him as the titular superhero in 1989’s “Batman.” He reprised the role in 1992’s “Batman Returns.”

He shared, “He hands me the script and says, ‘Tell me what you think about it.’

“This is after Beetlejuice. After that performance. After that type of movie. He says to the studio, ‘I want this guy.’ I’ll never understand why anyone cares. The buzz… you’d think we were being invaded. It was unbelievable. The press went crazy. But he stood by me. I’ll always appreciate the courage he had to stand by that decision.”

The “Jack Frost” star, who plays the title role in two “Beetlejuice” films, says Burton deserves credit for making superhero movies such big money.

He continued: “What that (film) spawned … there are a lot of people making a lot of money off of superhero movies because of his choice and his vision of what those movies could be, because he changed everything.”

Despite his influence, Burton recently emphasized that he has no intention of making any more superhero films.

He told Variety: “Right now I would say no. I approach things from different angles, so I would never say never to anything. But right now it’s not something I’d be interested in.”

Burton has said that shooting Batman in 1988 was a very different experience from how most comic book movies are shot today, because the shots felt “experimental.”

He explained in an interview: “I was lucky because at the time the word ‘franchise’ didn’t exist. ‘Batman’ seemed a bit experimental at the time…

“It was so far removed from what the perception (of a superhero movie) would be. So you didn’t hear that kind of feedback from the studio, and being in England (shooting the movie), it was even further removed.

“We really had to focus on the movie and not think about the things they were thinking about right now before we even made it.”

Burton stepped away from the Batman films after shooting its 1992 sequel, and admitted that things began to change while they were filming the film.

He added: “The whole thing energized me (to come back for the sequel). And then we started hearing the word franchise and the studio started thinking, ‘What’s that black thing coming out of Penguin’s mouth?’

“It was the first time I had ever experienced a cold wind of this kind.”

Burton came close to returning to superhero films in the 1990s when he signed on to direct Superman Lives, which was set to star Nicolas Cage. However, the project was canceled in 1998 and never went into production.