Originally published December 17, 2014. Updated July 3, 2023.
Over the past couple of weeks both Michael Keaton and Tim Burton have been speaking about the long-rumoured Beetlejuice 2 – with Burton stating this week that “it’s probably closer than ever” – and now the director has confirmed that Winona Ryder will be back for the sequel.
“Oh yeah,” Burton told MTV News when asked if he’d be directing the follow-up to the 1988 supernatural comedy during a promotional interview for his new film Big Eyes. MTV then asked if Ryder would be back, with Burton responding: “Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Yeah yeah, oh yeah.”
After presumably tiring of the word “yeah”, the filmmaker then added that: “I worked with [Ryder], I hadn’t seen her in awhile… and she was so great. I was so happy to see her. So those kinds of elements mean something to me. Michael, and her… and that character, I just miss it, there’s some freedom about that character that I love.”
You can listen to our interview with Tim Burton on the latest episode of the Flickering Myth Podcast:
