With the success of BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, this seems to be a good moment to remember that the studio wanted Tim Burton to make a sequel to the original 1988 BEETLEJUICE movie basically the moment the box office closed on it, Burton hired writer Jona...
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With the success of BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE, this seems to be a good moment to remember that the studio wanted Tim Burton to make a sequel to the original 1988 BEETLEJUICE movie basically the moment the box office closed on it, Burton hired writer Jonathan Gems to put together a script for a never-produced sequel concept with the extra-weird title BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN, and you can now read that entire script online
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by
The rumor back in the day was that Burton really didn’t want to do a BEETLEJUICE sequel, so he deliberately developed BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN as a concept so weird no studio would ever sign off on it. You don’t hear that version of the story much anymore these days, possibly because that is the kind of story you stop telling in public when you realize that actually you might be OK with doing a sequel now
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Jason Lefkowitzreplied to Jason Lefkowitz last edited by [email protected]
The rumor back in the day was that Burton really really did not want to do a BEETLEJUICE sequel, so he deliberately developed BEETLEJUICE GOES HAWAIIAN as a concept so weird no studio would ever sign off on it. You don’t hear that version of the story much anymore, possibly because that is the kind of story you stop telling in public when you realize that actually you might be OK with doing a sequel now
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@jalefkowit when I first heard there was a sequel coming I was like holy shit they're actually doing Goes Hawaiian?! Then I was horribly disappointed.
The timing seemed perfect for them to greenlight it and Burton feeling obligated. But alas. -
@nyquildotorg I've always wondered how much "Goes Hawaiian" was just Burton flipping the bird to the suits at Warner Bros. "Oh, you want a sequel? FINE, here's a sequel. I dare you to actually make it."
If it was, it would make sense that the concept quietly vanished when Burton got older and decided he wasn't as averse to sequels as he used to be