Tim Burton's savage reason for cutting two key characters from Beetlejuice sequel
dailyrecord.co.ukTim Burton has shed light on his decision to exclude Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis from the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel.In the much-loved 1988 original, Baldwin and Davis played Adam and Barbara Maitland, a married couple who meet their untimely demise when their car plunges off a bridge.
They return as ghosts in their former home, but when a new family moves in, they're compelled to enlist the eerie services of Michael Keaton's decaying character, Betelgeuse.The sequel, titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, explores how the Maitland's found a "loophole" that enabled them to finally move on.
Now the film's director, Burton, has explained his reasons for cutting the pair from the Jenna Ortega-fronted follow-up."I think the thing was for me I didn't want to just tick any boxes," Burton explained to People. "So even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one, I was focusing on something else." "A sequel like this, it really had to do with the time.
That was my hook into it, the three generations of mother, daughter, granddaughter. And that [would] be the nucleus of it. I couldn't have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever," Burton added.Meanwhile, Davis, who portrayed Barbara, shared her thoughts on her absence from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice with Entertainment Tonight earlier this year, reports the Mirror."My theory is that ghosts don't age...
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