Tim Burton has opened up about leaving Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis out of this year's Beetlejuice sequel . In the beloved 1988 original, Baldwin and Davis's married couple Adam and Barbara Maitland are killed when their car swerves over the edge of a bridge. They return to their home as ghosts, but when a new family moves into the property they're forced to employ the supernatural services of Michael Keaton's decaying creep, Betelgeuse.
Titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Burton's follow-up reveals how the Maitland's discovered a "loophole" that allowed them to finally move on to the next place. "I think the thing was for me I didn’t want to just tick any boxes," the filmmaker told 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," added Burton. Meanwhile, Barbara actress Davis spoke to Entertainment Tonight about her Beetlejuice Beetlejuice no-show earlier this year. "My theory is that ghosts don’t age.
.. Not that I have," she said.
"Our characters were stuck the way they looked when they died forever, so it's been a while, it's been a minute." Interestingly, her co-star Keaton admitted there was an element of caution in approaching the Beetlejuice universe again. "We .