Claim: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children was directed by a man.
Evidence: Miss Peregrine 's Home for Peculiar Children is a 2016 American dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton and written by Jane Goldman , based on the 2011 novel of the same name by Ransom Riggs.
He is known for his dark , gothic , eccentric and quirky fantasy films such as Beetlejuice -LRB- 1988 -RRB- , Edward Scissorhands -LRB- 1990 -RRB- , the animated musical The Nightmare Before Christmas -LRB- 1993 -RRB- , the biographical film Ed Wood -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , the horror fantasy Sleepy Hollow -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , and later efforts such as Corpse Bride -LRB- 2005 -RRB- , Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street -LRB- 2007 -RRB- , Dark Shadows -LRB- 2012 -RRB- and Frankenweenie -LRB- 2012 -RRB-.