Michael Keaton Says He Wanted ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel to “Feel Handmade”

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice: Claim it 3 times, and Michael Keaton will certainly open regarding the upcoming sequel of his renowned 1988 movie, Beetlejuice.

In a current meeting with Individuals publication, the star that represents the rowdy spirit disclosed that he and supervisor Tim Burton were “hesitant and cautious” regarding making a sequel for the timeless however wound up having a lot enjoyable working with it.

“We thought, ‘You got to get this right. Otherwise, just don’t do it. Let’s just go on with our lives and do other things.’ So I was hesitant and cautious, and [Burton] was probably equally as hesitant and cautious over all these years,” he informed the magazine. “Once we got there, I said, ’OK, let’s just go for it. Let’s just see if we can do it, if we can pull this off.’”

Keaton shared that early in manufacturing, he and the filmmaker additionally reviewed exactly how neither of them was specifically curious about doing something that was as well technology-heavy.

“It had to feel handmade,” he stated. “What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you, to watch everybody in the shrunken head room and say, ‘Those are people under there, operating these things, trying to get it right.’”

He proceeded, “It’s the most exciting thing when you get to do that again after years of standing in front of a giant screen, pretending somebody’s across the way from you.”

Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara return for Beetlejuice 2, also known as Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which additionally stars Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux in brand-new functions. Resources formerly informed The Hollywood Press reporter that the Ortega plays the little girl of Ryder’s Lydia, while Dafoe represents an immortality police policeman, and Bellucci tackles the duty of Beetlejuice’s spouse.

The sequel additionally rejoins Ortega with Wednesday supervisor Burton, in addition to co-showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Manufacturing on the movie covered in Vermont in November.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice strikes movie theaters Sept. 6.