Screenwriter Alfred Gough explains to EW how that stop-motion animated flashback is straight from the director’s personal fears.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromBeetlejuice Beetlejuice.
But the film, playing now in theaters, still has a place for the character.
‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ reveals the fate of Charles Deetz.Parisa Taghizadeh;Warner Brothers/courtesy Everett Collection
The voice was added in during post-production and no actor credit is listed for Charles.
“The way Charles dies in that animated piece is Tim’s nightmare of dying.
“We were like, ‘Well, that’s genius.
Catherine O’Hara, Jenna Ortega, Winona Ryder, and Justin Theroux in ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’.Parisa Taghizadeh
So that’s going to be how he dies.'”
“Charles dying was the impetus for doing it,” the scribe says.
“Then what happens when Charles dies?”
A family doesn’t.
Whatever fissures are in your family, in a way, get magnified.
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“I think Tim felt, and Miles and I agreed, that their story had been told.
So how do we move on from that?”
