Director Tim Burton told SCI FI Wire that he's eager to begin shooting a full-length version of Frankenweenie, the short film he made in 1984 while working for Disney. Burton will produce and direct Frankenweenie, the Frankenstein-inspired story of a boy who brings his beloved dog back from the dead, as a 3-D stop-motion-animation film.

"We're going to do that real low-budget," Burton said in an interview while promoting his latest film, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. "The thing that excites me about it and that will make it different is that when I look at my original drawings, there are certain things that are in those that I couldn't get in the live action when I made the film. So I'm quite excited to try to get a certain emotion and other characters in the new version, and I want to make it a slightly bigger story."

The original Frankenweenie offers a glimpse of the filmmaker to come with its odd camera angles, warped sense of humor and horror, use of shadows and even specific images, Burton admitted. He went on to make movies including Batman, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands and Sleepy Hollow.

"I'm such a fan of old movies, and I think that just stays with you," Burton added. "It doesn't leave you. Those kinds of things, whether you think about them or not, they just are in your DNA, and they stay with you. Even if I was doing a romantic comedy I would probably stick a bunch of shadows in there or whatever." Frankenweenie will be released in 2009.
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And while you wait for the remake, here is the original Frankenweenie: