News on the sequel of "Beetlejuice" had been spreading and growing louder as actors and people involve in the production have recently been talking about their excitement and anticipation in relishing their roles on the 1988 horror-comedy movie featuring "the Ghost with the Most."
Award winning horror film director Tim Burton already made a hint on Dec. 2014 that Beetlejuice would definitely be having a sequel with familiar faces returning on the big screen. This was further confirmed by Winona Ryder after she was interviewed over the weekend.
A bubbly Ryder expressed her excitement about the upcoming project offering no less than utmost praise for her would-be co-actor Michael Keaton. Ryder would reprise her role as Lydia Deetz, the human best friend of the "bio-exorcist" Beetlejuice, played by Michael Keaton.
Keaton had also been reported to be very interested with the development of the sequel. In fact, the sequel's writer, Seth Grahame-Smith who also wrote Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer, admitted that Keaton had been helpful with the sequel's script by giving advise on the character, particularly on Beetlejuice's disgusting sense of humor.
However, Burton revealed that "Beetlejuice 2" would not even be considered as a sequel. If in the first movie Beetlejuice came to the aid of a ghost couple Adam and Barbara Maitland (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who wanted to evict the new owners of their home, the new movie would be set at the present time with a relatively older Lydia, but with the same eccentric Beetlejuice. Add to that, doors would be opened for a family member as Beetlejuice's older cousin Beetle Bernie comes in to the limelight.
Although the screening date hasn't been set and with both Grahame-Smith and Burton having a lot on their plate of lately, it was made clear that the drafts on the script have been completed.
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