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Tim Burton Confirms ‘Beetlejuice 2’ is a Go!
Update: A rep reached out to Showbizspy (the original source of the announcement) and stated, “Tim Burton did not confirm ‘Beetlejuice 2’ as the movie is not in development. Tim’s focus is entirely on Miss Preegrine’s Home For Peculiar Children set for a September 30 2016 release and developing Dumbo.”
It’s almost 28 years to the day since Tim Burton’s wildly imaginative and bitingly witty horror/comedy Beetlejuice hit theaters and fans have been craving more of “the ghost with the most” ever since. From the brilliant score by Danny Elfman to the Oscar-worthy performance of Michael Keaton as the title character, the movie has become a beloved classic that still deserves all the praise heaped upon it.
While rumblings have been going for a while about a sequel, including a supposed confirmation from Winona Ryder, there hasn’t been a serious green light. That all changes today as Tim Burton has confirmed himself that not only is Beetlejuice 2 confirmed to move ahead, it’s also bringing back Ryder AND Keaton!
Burton tells Showbizspy the following:
The film is a go and has been approved by the Warner Bros. team, we have talked with the cast members we wanted for the film and they are all on board, this includes both Winona and Michael. We have the script in hand everything is in place all we need to do now is get ready to start filming.
No further details were released but this is AMAZING news and I’m beyond excited! If it’s even half as charming as the original, I’ll be happy! I just seriously hope that they keep the practical FX that they did in the first film. To this day, all those visuals make me smile and feel totally immersed in that supernatural phantasmagoria!
Paramount is heading to Sleepy Hollow with a brand new feature film take on the classic Headless Horseman tale, with Lindsey Anderson Beer (Pet Sematary: Bloodlines) announced to direct the movie back in 2022. But is that project still happening, now two years later?
The Hollywood Reporter lets us know this afternoon that Paramount Pictures has renewed its first-look deal with Lindsey Anderson Beer, and one of the projects on the upcoming slate is the aforementioned Sleepy Hollow movie that was originally announced two years ago.
THR details, “Additional projects on the development slate include… Sleepy Hollow with Anderson Beer attached to write, direct, and produce alongside Todd Garner of Broken Road.”
You can learn more about the slate over on The Hollywood Reporter. It also includes a supernatural thriller titled Here Comes the Dark from the writers of Don’t Worry Darling.
The origin of all things Sleepy Hollow is of course Washington Irving’s story “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” which was first published in 1819. Tim Burton adapted the tale for the big screen in 1999, that film starring Johnny Depp as main character Ichabod Crane.
More recently, the FOX series “Sleepy Hollow” was also based on Washington Irving’s tale of Crane and the Headless Horseman. The series lasted four seasons, cancelled in 2017.
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