Warning: This article contains a mild spoiler fromBeetlejuice Beetlejuice.
However, the screenwriters onBeetlejuice Beetlejuicewere prepared for a different scenario.
Though, it was ultimately scrapped.
Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis in 1988’s ‘Beetlejuice’.Warner Brothers /courtesy Everett Collection
So they kind of needed to look like they were 35, which was never going to happen.
I think Tim felt, and Miles and I agreed, that their story had been told.
So how do we move on from that?"
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.Parisa Taghizadeh
When they die in a car crash, they find themselves haunting the house as ghosts.
“The first movie is really about the Maitlands,” Gough explains.
“It was really Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis' movie for a good [portion].
They’re the protagonists who called Beetlejuice against the Deetz family.
So he said he really wanted to focus on them.”
“He wasn’t interested in doing fan service or being slavish,” Gough adds.
“I think we even threw in a joke where [Astrid] goes, ‘How convenient!'”
“We tried to find ways, could we nod to the Maitlands?
I think Tim was finally like, ‘Let’s not do that.
We have a reason why they’re not there anymore.
So let’s just move on from that.'”
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“That movie means a lot to me,” she said at the time.
I say, ‘What movie is it?’
[It’s] alwaysBeetlejuice."
