According to director Tim Burton and Oscar nominated star Michael Keaton, ideas for raising the undead and making a sequel have been thrown around since the first Beetlejuice.
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Fans rejoice: Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will finally hit theaters on September 6.
Now, more than 30 years after the original introduction, there’s first look at the ghoul himself (below).
Keaton recently told People that this movie was “the most fun I’ve had on set in a long time.”
Jenna Ortega—who plays Lydia’s (Winona Ryder) daughter Astrid, said this movie “was probably the happiest I had ever seen Tim on a set. He’s clapping at the monitor and shouting and laughing, which was really, really endearing.”
A big part of the joy of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was the craft. “It needed a back-to-basics, handmade quality,” Burton told EW. “It reenergized why I love making movies.”
Keaton agreed, “What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you, to watch everybody in the shrunken head room and say, ‘Those are people under there, operating these things, trying to get it right. It’s the most exciting thing. When you get to do that again after years of standing in front of a screen, pretending somebody’s across the way from you, this is just enormous fun.”
In another interview, Keaton added that he’d seen a cut of the film “and I confidently say this thing is great. The original was so fun and exciting visually. It’s all that but really kind of beautiful, and interestingly emotional here and there. I wasn’t ready for that. It’s great.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice stars Keaton, Ryder, Ortega, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, and Willem Dafoe.
