Tim Burton mulling “Beetlejuice” horror classic sequel

PanARMENIAN.Net - Tim Burton is mulling a return to the world of his 1988 classic Beetlejuice, The Hollywood Reporter said.

Sources say that Burton has the offer from Warner Bros. to direct the movie, on which he is already a producer with David Geffen.

But insiders say that Burton has yet to read the latest draft of the script, which is by Seth Grahame-Smith and David Katzenberg. (Grahame-Smith penned the scripts for Burton’s Dark Shadows and the Burton-produced Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, based on his own novel.)

The involvement of Michael Keaton, who played the titular ghost, is up in the air at this stage. And it’s by no means his next movie. That would be Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, which is set up at Fox.

That movie, an adaptation of a Ransom Riggs' YA novel, has a release date of July 15, 2014.

Beetlejuice is a 1988 American fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by The Geffen Film Company and distributed by Warner Bros. The plot revolves around a recently deceased young couple (Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis) who become ghosts haunting their former home and an obnoxious, devious "bio-exorcist" named Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton) from the underworld who tries to scare away the new inhabitants (Catherine O'Hara, Jeffrey Jones, and Winona Ryder) permanently.

The film spawned an animated television series that Burton produced and a planned unproduced sequel, Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. In 2012, new development on a sequel was announced.