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McDonald’s probably wasn’t expecting Batman to cause a parenting crisis. The restaurant had a pretty simple plan. Put some Batman toys in Happy Meals and let millions of kids drag their parents through the drive-thru. What’s not to love? There was just one problem. Tim Burton had made a Batman movie that featured a grotesque…

Tim Burton has made a career out of making weirdos look cool. Beetlejuice is a walking bad decision. Edward Scissorhands has blenders for hands. Sweeney Todd’s demon barber speaks for itself. Burton understood the appeal of outsiders long before Hollywood started turning every comic-book character into a billion-dollar franchise. The director eventually developed an interest…

Imagine a world where Spock, Darth Vader, and the wild imagination behind “Beetlejuice” all team up for a live-action fairy tale. Actually, you don’t have to imagine it at all, because back in the 1980s, this unlikely collision actually happened. Leonard Nimoy, James Earl Jones, and Tim Burton brought a wild adaptation of “Aladdin” to…