Date: 6th November 2013

Michael Keaton says yes to Beetlejuice 2.


The rumours surrounding a reunion between Michael Keaton and director Tim Burton for a sequel to their 1988 offbeat hit 'Beetlejuice' appear to no longer be rumours.

Michael Keaton himself appears to have confirmed the plans to reanimate his titular 'bio-exorcist' for a second movie.

Approached by the shy and retiring gossip website with a camera while he was out and about, and asked whether he was involved in Tim Burton's sequel, he said simply: "Yes."

He may, of course, have misheard the question, but 'Beetlejuice' is a relatively unmistakable word.

Fans of the original movie will delight in the news.

Burton has reportedly been offered the project by Warner Bros, while a script is currently being written by Seth Grahame-Smith, best known for his best-selling parody novels 'Pride and Prejudice and Zombies' and 'Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter'.

The first film found Keaton's Beetlejuice hired by a recently deceased couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) to drive out the new owners, played by Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones and Winona Ryder.

Burton will direct a screen version of the novel 'Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children' first, however, due out in July 2014.

Source: Press Release


 

 

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