‘Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice’: Michael Keaton Makes Surprise Appearance At CinemaCon & Calls Pic “Really F*cking Good!”

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Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice himself, showed up at Warner Bros‘ CinemaCon presentation for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Keaton, who already has seen the movie twice, said: “Truthfully, I don’t think it’s a secret anymore, but [Tim Burton] and I over the years kicked the notion around.

Three or five years passed, we’d say, ‘What do you think?’ Finally we got it right. But also the script — it’s very difficult thing to write.

Frankly, I followed his lead. I’ll tell you this, though, it’s really f*cking good. In fact, it’s great.” Burton on why he made the movie: “I started thinking about it in the sense [that] I identified with the Lydia character being the weird teenage character. [I thought,] ‘What happened with the Deetz family?’ It’s three generations of Deetz women.

I used the experience of as you get older. I just got really interested in that. I was lucky with Catherine [O’Hara], Winona [Ryder] and Michael [Keaton] — it was a beautiful experience.” RELATED: Robert Pattinson Dies Many Times In ‘Mickey 17’ First Look: Bong Joon Ho Pic Previews At CinemaCon “There is a spirit of improvisation,” said Burton about the set.