Don’t Expect More Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

In a caller interrogation with the New York Times, Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara sermon reuniting for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice arsenic they reminisce astir filming the original.

While the speech includes immoderate absorbing tidbits astir Beetlejuice‘s shrimp cocktail glove-puppets and The Handbook for the Recently Deceased (“…someone really wrote an full handbook. I thought it was conscionable a prop!” Ryder exclaims), precise small is revealed bout adjacent month’s sequel. However, Burton notes the film’s titular quality volition erstwhile again bask less than 20 minutes of surface time.

As helium says, “I didn’t recognize until aft we changeable it [the sequel] that it astir mirrored the aforesaid docket we had connected the archetypal one. You were astir apt successful this 1 much than the archetypal movie, but we ever said little is more.” Keaton echoes Burton comment, stating it was a deliberate determination to support Beetlejuice’s schtick to a minimum. “Yeah, our statement was nary much Beetlejuice than the past time. If it’s implicit a infinitesimal oregon two, maybe, but we’ve each seen that failure. ‘Hey man, those car crashes were truly good. Let’s springiness ’em 50 car crashes.’ We some knew, don’t bash that.”

So, tin we truly expect less than 20 minutes of the film’s marquee character? One who is billed twice successful its precise title, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice? In the archetypal movie, Beetlejuice lone has 17 minutes of surface clip successful a movie that runs conscionable 92-minutes long. As the sequel runs 104, he’d request conscionable a fewer much minutes of surface clip to execute an adjacent ratio.

Has the newly reenergized Tim Burton, erstwhile again filming with applicable effects and his pre-Johnny Depp muse learned to reign himself successful since 2019’s Dumbo? In the aforesaid interview, Keaton—by his ain prompt—admits helium “sucked successful Dumbo,” stating: “I emotion moving with Tim truthful much, but I don’t deliberation we ever truly analyzed wherefore we enactment beauteous good together; we conscionable do. I deliberation I fto him down connected 1 movie, but that’s conscionable me, and it bugs maine to this today. I was clueless on Dumbo. I sucked successful Dumbo.” Here’s hoping the Burton-Keaton confederation continues- from the dependable of things, we’re excited to spot what they bash unneurotic next.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opens September 6.

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