Composer Danny Elfman has revealed he isn’t aware of the current status of Beetlejuice 2 but admits that this doesn’t mean the project isn’t in development as he is “always the last one to hear.”
“No, you know, oddly, he has not mentioned it to me. The last… a year ago, I saw Michael Keaton, and he mentioned ‘So, we’re doing Beetlejuice 2?’, and I said ‘Well, you’d know more than I do.’ And I’ve heard nothing about it since,” Elfman said in a recent interview with JOE.
“Yeah, projects will be in development for quite a long time. So I think it is something that has been in development for a few years, but I don’t know where it is in that process. I’m always the last one to hear, believe me.
“Often, I’ll hear about whatever movie Tim is doing, it is kinda funny, because he’ll call me and he’ll say ‘Danny, I’m doing such and such a film, would you like to come on board?’, and I’ll already have read about it in Variety two weeks earlier. So I’m not the first one to hear about things, let me put it that way.”
For a time in 2015 to 2016, it seemed that Beetlejuice 2 would be moving ahead, with Tim Burton, Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder all discussing their involvement in the project before things fell silent. The last we heard about the sequel came from Burton earlier this year, where he suggested that there’d been no movement, and he now doubted whether it would happen.
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