Tim Burton turns his eye to kitsch with 'Big Eyes'

Susan Wloszczyna, USA TODAY | USATODAY

What Big Eyes you have, Tim Burton!

The filmmaker best known for mirthful macabre is stepping away from the goth (the better to rebound from 2012's bloodless vampire comedy Dark Shadows) and turning his attention to kitsch with Big Eyes.

The story about Walter and Margaret Keane, the couple whose paintings of large-orbed children haunted suburban homes in the '50s and '60s, will reunite Burton with his Ed Wood screenwriters Larry Karaszewski and Scott Alexander.

Christoph Waltz, fresh off his Oscar win for Django Unchained, and Amy Adams are in talks to play the Keanes, who engaged in a long legal dispute after their divorce over who actually produced the works of art. Ryan Reynolds and Reese Witherspoon were previously attached to the film.