In a new interview with The New York Times, Tim Burton, Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara discussed the reunion. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice as they recall filming the original.
Although the conversation contained some interesting tidbits Beetlejuiceshrimp cocktail glove puppet and Handbook for the recently deceased (“…someone actually wrote an entire manual. I thought it was just a prop!” Ryder exclaimed) Little has been revealed about next month’s sequel. However, Burton noted that the film’s eponymous character will once again enjoy less than 20 minutes of screen time.
As he said, “I didn’t realize until after we were shooting [the sequel] It pretty much mirrors the same timeline we had on the first project. You may have more screen time in this movie than in the first movie, but we always say less is more. Keaton echoed Burton’s comments, saying it was a carefully considered decision to keep Beetlejuice’s shenanigans to a minimum. “Yeah, our deal is no more Beetlejuice than last time. If it lasted longer than a minute or two, maybe, but we’ve all seen this fail. “Hey man, those car crashes were really good. Let’s give them 50 Car accident. We all know not to do this.
So, can we really expect the main character to spend less than 20 minutes in the film? one of the people being billed twice As its title suggests, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice? In the original film, “Beetlejuice” only had a running time of 17 minutes, and the film was only 92 minutes long. Since the sequel has a screen time of 104, he only needs a few more minutes of screen time to reach the same ratio.
With a rejuvenated Tim Burton once again shooting movies with practical effects, has his former Johnny Depp muse learned to control himself since 2019? Dumbo? In the same interview, Keaton admitted, at his own prompting, that he was “obsessed with Dumbo,” saying: “I absolutely loved working with Tim, but I don’t think we ever really analyzed why we worked together. Well; that’s what we did. I think I let him down on one movie, but that’s me, and it bothers me today. Dumbo. I sucked it in Dumbo”. Here’s hoping Burton and Keaton’s alliance continues – as things stand, we’re excited to see what they do together next.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Opens September 6th.
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