In a chat Tim Burton participated in with a gaggle of journalists (us included) on the Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice junket, he opened up about making the sequel.
With just some days to go earlier than the Ghost with the Most re-enters our world, Warner Bros. held the press junket for Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice in New York Metropolis, with all the stars in attendance. Other than the video interviews (which you’ll try right here), director Tim Burton did a roundtable with a handful of press to speak all issues his long-awaited sequel. Listed below are the highlights from that chat…
On if there was a temptation to make Beetlejuice extra heroic this time round:
“Michael and I both love the fact that he was politically incorrect then and he’s politically incorrect now… Somebody asked him the other day, ‘so Michael, how has the Beetlejuice character evolved?’ And we just started laughing, because he doesn’t evolve. That’s the whole point.”
On seeing Michael Keaton return to the position of “Beetlejuice”:
“We didn’t rehearse and do anything. So he comes on, it was truly like a demon possession. It felt like a time warp. It was unnerving. It was great. It was exciting, but it was really also disturbing… That’s what gave the film its energy. You know, we’d make up stuff every day – which is kind of hard to do when you’re dealing with all live effects… Mike and I talked about this from the very beginning, that that was very important to the spirit, especially with all the technology… We just wanted to kind of not think about sequel or anything. Just go and make the movie. And so, like I said, that energy of what he brought back to it was, was amazing and crucial.”
On how lengthy the movie has been in improvement and why he wished to make it now:
“It’s been requested (about) from the very starting, proper? However nothing clicked and really, it couldn’t have occurred till now. I simply put all of the noise away and I simply go, okay, I like the Lydia character. That was the character that I linked with… So I am going like, effectively, what occurred to this individual 35 years later? , what bizarre thing- you go from cool teenager to what some fucked up grownup or what? And what relationships do you have got when you have got youngsters?
And it’s not one thing I might have accomplished again then. It’s solely one thing you would do when you skilled these issues your self. And so for me, this grew to become a really private film. Like sort of a bizarre household film a couple of bizarre household… However that grew to become the emotional hook. The three generations of mom, daughter, granddaughter, life, demise, you already know, simply primary, regular issues that all of us expertise. After which particularly when you’re fortunate sufficient to become older a bit bit, you sort of really feel these issues. In order that’s the place it actually began. And it actually might solely have occurred for me in any case this time.”
On nearly quitting directing options after Dumbo:
“I almost got out of making movies after my last one. ’cause I just didn’t feel this whole studio thing. I just didn’t feel, you know… So I went off and did the TV thing, Wednesday, in Romania, just to kind of… re-cleanse, so to speak, or re-energize, whatever. So I had no burning desire to make a sequel or anything. I just wanted to make this movie. So I think I’ve recalibrated the way I’m gonna approach things in the future.”
On bringing in his Wednesday star Jenna Ortega:
“She is Wednesday, you know what I mean? She’s really integral to this because she’s our entrance into this, she’s kind of the anchor of the film, it is actually really the story about her. And if you really want to boil it down, you know, her and her mother. And so she’s a really beautiful addition.”
On if he’d be down for a 3rd “Beetlejuice” film:
“If it follows the model now, I’d be making that one… I’d be over a hundred… Even if you said it to me, I would run the other direction. This is one where I just said it, it was something that caught my- I don’t know. Not right now, ’cause we’re finishing this one, basically.”
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