The Hollywood veteran first starred as undead anti-hero Beetlejuice in Tim Burton‘s 1988 cult classic, with Winona Ryder, Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin also featuring.
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Michael Keaton has put a spanner in the works of Beetlejuice 2, admitting the ship may have sailed.
“The only way to do it is to do it right”, he says.
Keaton’s career faded a bit when he hung up the cape and cowl after Tim Burton’s Batman Returns in 1992, but it’s bigger than ever these days.
Asked if he knows anything about it, Keaton says, “No”.
No. Zero. You always hear things, that this is happening, and people seem to know more about it than I do … it’s possible that ship has sailed.
Keaton used his speech to praise his friend, basketball legend Michael Jordan, who said this week he could “no longer stay silent” over the rash of police shootings and troubled race relations in the US.
Birdman star Michael Keaton is set to start filming American Assassin, and will be seen on the big screen in The Founder August 5, based on the true story of the McDonald’s founder, and in Spider-Man: Homecoming, due summer 2017.
There have been rumours about a possible sequel for sometime but Keaton does not see it happening. The actress, who is starring in the Netflix original series “Stranger Things”, played Lydia Deetz in the movie. Ryder added that “Beetlejuice” was an “iconic film” and that the only way that it could be done is if Burton and Keaton were on board.
He revealed: “There are certain movies that are like Indian burial grounds”. The actors have said they’ll happily appear in a second instalment and Tim Burton has never hidden his love of this mischievous and eccentric character. You don’t touch certain things.
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If the door wasn’t close to closing on Beetlejuice 2 before, it certainly is now.
