Michael Keaton Says Beetlejuice 2 Won’t Have a Lot of CGI – The Hollywood Reporter
Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton, 1988
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Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice: Say it three times and Michael Keaton will talk about the upcoming sequel to his famous 1988 film, Beetlejuice.
In a recent interview with the people Magazine, the actor who portrays the rampaging spirit revealed that he and director Tim Burton were “hesitant and cautious” about making a sequel to the classic film but they ended up having a lot of fun working on it.
“We thought, ‘You’ve got to get this right.’ “Otherwise, just don’t do it. Let’s get on with our lives and do other things. So I was hesitant and cautious, and (Burton) has probably been equally hesitant and cautious all these years.'” “When we got there, I said, ‘Okay, let’s go for it.’ “Let’s just see if we can do it, if we can make it happen.”
Keaton shared that early in production, he and the director also discussed how neither of them was particularly interested in doing something that was so heavy on technology.
“It had to feel handcrafted,” he said. “What made it fun was watching someone in the corner holding something for you, and watching everyone in the shrunken head room saying, ‘Those are the people out there, running this stuff, trying to do it right.’”
“It’s the most exciting thing when you can do it again after years of standing in front of a giant screen, pretending there’s someone across the road from you,” he continued.
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Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara return Beetlejuice 2Also known as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which also stars Gina Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, and Justin Theroux in new roles. Sources said earlier Hollywood Reportr Ortega plays Ryder’s daughter Lydia, while Dafoe portrays a law enforcement officer in the afterlife, and Bellucci takes on the role of Beetlejuice’s wife.
The sequel also reunites Ortega with Wednesday Director Burton, as well as co-showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Production on the film wrapped in Vermont in November.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Hits theaters September 6.
