Micheal Keaton Talks BEETLEJUICE 2 and How They Are Making It the Same Way They Made the first One

Director Tim Burton is currently in production on Beetlejuice 2, and Michael Keaton is back as The Ghost with the Most and he’s having a blast making it! He recently talked about the time he’s spent making the film so far and shared that they are utilizing practical effects as they did with the original film. He explained in an interview with Empire:

"Beetlejuice is the most f*ckin' fun you can have working, It's so fun, it's so great. And you know what it is? We're doing it exactly like we did the first movie ... There's a woman in the great waiting room for the afterlife literally with a fishing line – I want people to know this because I love it – tugging on the tail of a cat to make it move." 

Keaton went on to say that he and Burton agreed a long time ago that if they got to make this sequel, they had to make the movie the same way they did with the original. 

"[Burton] and I were talking about it years and years ago, never telling anybody. I said, 'If it happens, first of all, we've both said we're doing it many times. We both agreed, if it happens, it has to be done as close to the way we made it the first time. Making stuff up, making stuff happen, improvising and riffing, but literally handmade stuff like people creating things with their hands and building something. F*ckin' great. It's the most fun I've had working on a movie in I can't tell you how long."

I love hearing this and it actually makes me even more excited to watch the movie. This is gonna be a ton of fun and I love it that this sequel is going to look and feel like the original movie. 

The movie also stars Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz, Jenna Ortega (Wednesday) as Lydia’s daughter, Justin Theroux (The Leftovers) and Monica Bellucci (Irreversible, Spectre, The Apartment) as Beetlejuice’s wife in the story. Willem Dafoe is also in the movie and plays a ghoulish law enforcement officer in the Neitherworld.

The project started production this week with Burton directing from a script written by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar (Wednesday and Smallville). The script was also worked on by Mike Vukadinovich, with earlier drafts from Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg. Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith are producing. Danny Elfman is also returning to compose the score.

The movie will be released in theaters on September 6th, 2024.