Tim Burton Explains Why Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis Aren’t In ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’
deadline.comNo matter how many times you say their names, don’t expect Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis to pop up in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Director Tim Burton recently explained why the actors did not reprise their roles as the ghostly couple Adam and Barbara Maitland from the original 1988 movie for the long-awaited sequel, which premieres Sept.
6 in theaters. “I think the thing was for me I didn’t want to just tick any boxes,” Burton told People. “So even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one, I was focusing on something else.” In the first movie, the recently-deceased couple enlists the help of the titular ghoul (played by Michael Keaton) to help them scare away the yuppie family that moved in after their death.
But when the family’s death-obsessed teen Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder) meets the mischievous spirit, all hell breaks loose on the Connecticut home. “A sequel like this, it really had to do with the time,” explained Burton. “That was my hook into it, the three generations of mother, daughter, granddaughter.
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