Some movie directors have a habit of saying things that come back to haunt them. Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice is finally getting a sequel and, surprisingly, that sequel was directed by the Ed Wood director himself. Interestingly, Burton didn’t like the idea of making a Beetlejuice sequel or remake back in the day.
Here is what he’s said about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice more recently. Tim Burton refused to make a sequel to ‘Beetlejuice’ or 1 of his other movies During a 2007 interview with Total Film , Burton was asked how he felt about the possibility that one of his movies would get remade. “Yikes!” he said.
“I don’t know about that. “I mean, I’ve often resisted re-visiting,” he added. “Like in the case of [ The Nightmare Before Christmas ] and Beetlejuice , they asked me to do sequels and I just said ‘No.
’ I wanted to keep the integrity of those particular things. Those movies were special to me.” Tim Burton was fine with other filmmakers retooling Batman Interestingly, a reporter asked Burton how he felt about Batman getting retooled after he left the franchise, and his attitude toward Batman was completely different.
“I was lucky when I made Batman because, at the time, it felt like new territory,” he said. “We went back to the traditions of the comic and they were usually light and cartoony. It was exciting.
Then, all of a sudden, every comic book hero is a tortured soul in a funny costume. [Laughs] “I think the genre’s always having to.