Beetlejuice 2 has taken us on an emotional rollercoaster over the last year. At various points both Winona Ryder and screenwriter Seth Grahame-Smith promised us the existence of Beetlejuice 2. After that, the Beetlejuice director, Tim Burton, came out to say that he had spoken with both Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton on the film and that they would need the "right circumstances" for the film to be made.
Basically, he said the is wasn't a movie that necessarily needed a sequel, so it had to be just "right."
Now Michael Keaton, the man behind the Beetlejuice character, has shared what he knows about the sequel – which happens to be a lot of nothing. "No. Zero. You always hear things, that this is happening, and people seem to know more about it than I do,” Keaton told Variety.
The Beetlejuice actor went on to say that "it’s possible that ship has sailed.”
Keaton's reasoning behind the ship having sailed is that the magic behind the original simply wouldn't be able to be remade. “The only way to do it is to do it right,” he said. “So much of it was improvised and so much was beautifully handmade by the artist that is Tim Burton. If you can’t get close to that, you leave it alone.”
Perhaps it's time we let the possibility of Beetlejuice 2 fade into obscurity.
