The cast of "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" celebrates the film's opening in New York

Record ID: 85284

  • Title: The cast of "Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children" celebrates the film's opening in New York
  • Date: 27th September 2016
  • Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (SEPTEMBER 26, 2016) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF WINDOW DISPLAYS AT SAKS FIFTH AVENUE EXTERIOR OF SAKS FIFTH AVENUE
  • Embargoed: 12th October 2016 04:17
  • Keywords: Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children premiere Samuel L Jackson Eva Green Asa Butterfield Ella Purnell Lauren McCrostie Tim Burton
  • Location: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS
  • City: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES / UNKNOWN FILM LOCATIONS
  • Country: USA
  • Topics: Film
  • Reuters ID: LVA00351CACZX
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Quirky and individualistic director Tim Burton finds his normal in the new film, "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children."
    The filmmaker reunited with his cast at the New York screening of the movie on Monday (September 26) before heading into the after party inside Saks Fifth Avenue department store.
    The film is based on author Ransom Riggs' book of the same name and tells the story of a young boy who learns about himself through the peculiar children at a home where it's normal to be strange and different.
    For Burton, the book seemed perfectly normal to him.
    "It's just all the themes that, you know, feeling peculiar, those weird feelings as a teenager, weird family things and fantasy and reality mixed together. You know, those are all things that I loved in Ransom's (Riggs) book. I thought he did - you know, that's why, it just spoke to me."
    Samuel L. Jackson plays the villain and said the project came at the right time.
    "I was in the middle of shooting 'Hateful Eight' and I got a call that said Tim Burton wants you for his movie. What? Awesome, because after this I'm going to need something light and airy and fun. So that was it. I read the script, read the book and was really caught by it," he said.
    "Then they sent me a rendering of what he wanted me to look like, and I was like, ok, this is good, this is very good," said Jackson whose character wears white contact lenses and has wiry white hair.
    Actress Laura McCrostie said she is excited for everyone to see the film.
    "It's an amazing piece, it explores so many different themes. It's funny, there is a journey in it, there is love, there's horror and a bit of fear as well. And there are so many different personalities so anybody can relate to the story, really."
    "Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children" opens in U.S. theaters on September 30.
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