The planned Beetlejuice 2 is either happening or it isn’t. Michael Keaton says
as far as he knows the project is dead. He told Variety: “You always hear
things, that this is happening, and people seem to know more about it than I
do…. it’s possible that ship has sailed. The only way to do it is to do it
right. So much of it was improvised and so much was beautifully handmade by the
artist that is Tim Burton. If you can’t get close to that, you leave it alone.
There are certain movies that are like Indian burial grounds. You never ride
over them. Bad s— happens if you cross that. You don’t touch certain things.
They are sacred.” Tim Burton seems to believe otherwise since he told Collider:
"This is the thing; it's something that I'm interested in, but there are so many
stories online about dumping Michael Keaton for Johnny Depp and this or that,
and I've talked to these people and they didn't want to hear this so they just
made up a story. But the fact of it is I have talked to Michael and I have
talked to Winona, I've talked to a few people. It's something that I really
would like to do in the right circumstances, but it's one of those films where
it has to be right. It's not a kind of a movie that cries out [for a sequel];
it's not the Beetlejuice trilogy. So it's something that if the elements are
right—because I do love the character and Michael's amazing as that character,
so yeah we'll see. But there's nothing concrete yet." |