The original plans for Beetlejuice 2 were insane.
The title was gonna be called Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian.
The deed’s family would have moved to Hawaii
to develop a vacation resort.
But that resort was being built on an ancient burial ground.
And then, of course,
Beetlejuice would arrive
and accidentally awaken the native spirits of the island,
causing absolute mayhem and chaos.
Surprisingly,
this Tim Burton and Hawaii movie didn’t get picked up by the studios.
Allegedly, it was because the development of the scripts was too slow,
and Tim Burton
and Michael Keaton were already busy working on the Batman sequel
at the time. Let’s be honest,
it just sounds like a bad idea in general.
By 1997, the writer that came up with the idea,
Jonathan Gems,
was just certain Beetlejuice winning a sequel anymore anyway.
It was already over a decade later,
he said that Winona Ryder would have been too old to reprise her role,
so they probably would just have to recast the entire thing anyway.
And then scripts
and rumours of the sequel were thrown around for years afterwards,
until 2019, when Warner Brothers shelved the idea completely.
But in 2022, because nostalgia and legacy sequels are all the rage now,
Warner Brothers confirmed that they were doing a Beetlejuice 2.
Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice!
And Michael Keaton only agreed to return if they’d make it
with as little technology as they possibly could
because he wanted that handmade feel. And that’s the tea.