Nightmare Before Christmas never got a movie sequel, but Disney wanted one

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1993’s The Nightmare Before Christmas, directed by Henry Selick and produced by Tim Burton, remains an all-time classic, one of the most instantly recognizable and merchandisable movies around. So why exactly hasn’t Disney ever made a sequel?

After all, Disney loves sequels. Few of its popular properties have dodged the obligatory continuation, let alone dodged it for 30 straight years. But Nightmare’s missing sequel isn’t due to a lack of trying on Disney’s part.

It’s been 30 Halloweens and 30 Christmasses since The Nightmare Before Christmas hit theaters, and its influence is only growing. Polygon is paying tribute to Henry Selick and Tim Burton’s masterpiece of stop-motion animation with a trick-or-treat bag of stories on the goth kid touchstone. Open the rest of your Nightmare Before Christmas presents here.

Over the last 30 years, the House of Mouse has tried more than a few times to get an official Nightmare sequel off the ground, only to be met by objections from Burton and Selick. Here are all the attempts to get another set of skeletal reindeer to fly — that we know about — and a few of the ways that Disney has managed to continue the story of Jack Skellington, Sally, and Halloween Town without officially making a sequel.

Disney’s first real foray into sequel territory with The Nightmare Before Christmas started in about 2002, according to Selick in a 2008 interview with About.com, nearly a decade after the release of the original film. The director, who has grounded his career in the medium of stop-motion animation, said that Disney wanted to ditch the stop-motion look of the first movie in favor of CG for the sequel, which he called unsettling. Selick does admit, however, that the idea of having Jack