Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice himself, showed up at Warner Bros‘ CinemaCon presentation for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Keaton, who already has seen the movie twice, said: “Truthfully, I don’t think it’s a secret anymore, but [Tim Burton] and I over the years kicked the notion around. Three or five years passed, we’d say, ‘What do you think?’ Finally we got it right. But also the script — it’s very difficult thing to write. Frankly, I followed his lead. I’ll tell you this, though, it’s really f*cking good. In fact, it’s great.”
Burton on why he made the movie, “I started thinking about it in the sense. I identified with the Lydia character being he weird teenage character. (I thought) ‘What happened with the Deetz family? It’s three generations of Deetz women. I used the experience of as you get older. I just got really interested in that. I was lucky with Catherine (O’Hara), Winona (Ryder) and Michael (Keaton) — it was a beautiful experience.”
“There is a spirit of improvisation,” said Burton about the spirt on set. Also on stage were pic’s actors Monica Belluci, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, and original castmember Catherine O’Hara.
“There is no sequel without Catherine,” said Keaton; the actress was concerned she’d never come back for part two. The extended trailer, very similar to the teaser, shows VFX-palooza with a Beetlejuice snake in the clouds, a subway station scene, Winona Ryder summoning Beetlejuice, and her character wondering if the living and the dead can co-exist in the same world. There’s a plan falling from the sky and Keaton’s Beetlejuice hitting on O’Hara’s Delia Deetz.
The pic comes out Sept. 6. Not be shocked if this film’s domestic opening approaches September record levels, the highest being It‘s at $123.4M.
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