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Sep 4, 2024 · Ideas for Beetlejuice 2 go way back to 1990 when Burton reportedly hired the help of Mars Attacks! screenwriter Jonathan Gems to pen a sequel entitled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian.
18 hours ago · A new screenplay was commissioned by Jonathan Gems titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, which featured the Deetz family in more prominent roles. Gems’ script went further along in development for a ...
Sep 6, 2024 · screenwriter Jonathan Gems, an absolutely bonkers sequel idea in the early nineties (titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian) sought to make the character’s heroic transformation permanent.
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Sep 4, 2024 · According to Burton's collaborator and uncredited Batman writer, Jonathan Gems, "Tim thought it would be funny to match the surfing backdrop of a beach movie with some sort of German...
18 hours ago · A new screenplay was written by Jonathan Gems, titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, featuring the Deetz family in more important roles. Gems’ script developed further for a few years. However, as Burton became busy with Batman Returns and The Nightmare Before Christmas, the Hawaiian idea stopped being developed.
Sep 11, 2024 · Screenwriter Jonathan Gems penned the script, and The Hawkline Monster continued his winning trend of writing films for Burton that never got made after it was added to the pile that contained Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, and Russ Meyer-inspired beach flick Go Baby Go.
Sep 9, 2024 · The late Warren Skaaren’s “Beetlejuice in Love” proposed an unholy love triangle spanning the worlds of the living and the dead, and future “Mars Attacks!” collaborator Jonathan Gems described “Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian” as a Burton-suggested mashup of surf flick and German Expressionism.
