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Mar 29, 2013 · 1. It Was Originally Meant To Be Way More Violent. While “Beetlejuice” is regularly trotted out as a successful example of the tonally tricky combination of horror and comedy, original...
- Sammy Davis, Jr. Was Tim Burton’s First Choice For The Title Role
- Beetlejuice Was Originally A Full-On Horror Film
- Catherine O’Hara Met Her Husband on The Set
- With A Slim VFX Budget, Tim Burton Doubled Down on Cheap B-Movie-Style Effects
- Michael Keaton Improvised A Lot of His Dialogue
- Most of The Cast Members Turned The Script Down When They First Read It
- Tim Burton Allowed A Plot Hole as A Courtesy to The Actors
- Dick Cavett Solved One of The Movie’S Special Effects Problems
- The Final Scene Was Added in Post-Production
- A Sequel Has Been in Development Hell For Decades
When Tim Burton first signed on to helm Beetlejuice, his top choice for the title role was Sammy Davis, Jr., of whom he’d been a huge fan since childhood. Unfortunately, studio executives didn’t like the idea of Sammy Davis, Jr. playing Betelgeuse and vetoed that decision. Before deciding on Michael Keaton, the producers considered Bill Murray, Jac...
The screenplay for Beetlejuice was originally written as a straight horror film. It didn’t evolve into a comedy until Tim Burton became attached to direct and Michael Keaton signed on to star. Back when it was a horror film, Wes Craven was the studio’s first choice to direct. In the much darker original script, Betelgeuse wanted to sexually assault...
Catherine O’Hara met her future husband, production designer Bo Welch, on the set of Beetlejuice. Welch had avoided interacting with the actors, but Tim Burton encouraged him to ask out O’Hara towards the end of production. The filmmakers’ first choice for O’Hara’s role, Delia, was Kirstie Alley, but the producers of her show Cheerswouldn’t give he...
Since Beetlejuice had a midsized budget, a lot of the visual effects had to be done in-camera. The space scenes and the sandworms were the only visual effects achieved in post-production. RELATED: The 10 Greatest Lines From Beetlejuice The budget for the visual effects was a relatively slim $1 million. As a result of this, Tim Burton decided to dou...
Despite playing the title character, Michael Keaton only has 17 minutes of screen time in Beetlejuice. Keaton spent just two weeks shooting all of his scenes and has since called it the favorite role he’s ever played. During production, Keaton improvised a lot of his dialogue. Some reports have the figure as high as 90% of his lines being ad-libbed...
Geena Davis was the only cast member who was actually eager to sign up for Beetlejuice. All the other actors – including Michael Keaton, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Sylvia Sidney – turned down the script when they first read it. Burton met with Keaton, flew out to see O’Hara, and personally called Sidney in order to convince them to take th...
There’s a plot hole in Beetlejuice, in that all the other recently deceased people in the waiting room look how they did when they died. For example, one person can be seen to have died from a snake bite while camping. But despite the fact that the Maitlands died by drowning, they appear dry in the netherworld. RELATED: Tim Burton's 10 Best Movies,...
For the scene in which the shrimp jump off the plates and attack the guests at the dinner party, Tim Burton tried using stage hands under the table, throwing the shrimp, but it wasn’t working. It was actually Dick Cavett who came up with the solution to this problem. He suggested placing the shrimp down on their faces, shooting their fall, and then...
The final scene of Beetlejuice is sort of an epilogue. The title character is struck in the afterlife’s waiting room, and tries to cut in line in front of a witch doctor. The witch doctor shrinks Betelgeuse’s head and he quips, “This might be a good look for me.” This scene wasn’t in the original script for the film; it was added in post-production...
Ever since Beetlejuice became a box office success, the studio has been trying to get a sequel off the ground. Michael Keaton has always been eager to do the sequel – and has maintained that he’ll happily do it if it gets into production today – but Tim Burton didn’t have any interest in it. He came up with the title Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian to th...
Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy horror comedy film [2] [3] directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren based on a story by McDowell and Larry Wilson. The film stars Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O'Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton as the title character.
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Mar 30, 2023 · In honor of Beetlejuice's 35th anniversary on March 30, we've scared up behind the scenes secrets about Tim Burton's iconic movie starring Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder.
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Feb 16, 2023 · Burton then jokingly suggested Scared Sheetless, which was referring to the gag in the movie where Adam and Barbara wear sheets in an attempt to scare Lydia. But the most harmful idea of all was Anonymous Haunted House Story 39480.
