Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice had some enjoyable with a few totally different story ideas, however neither one in every of them concerned the return of the Maitlands, Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara (Geena Davis), from the unique film.
They have been talked about just a few occasions and we discovered that they’d discovered a approach to transfer on to the subsequent aircraft of existence, which explains why they aren’t concerned with this movie. However, the unique script for the sequel really did have a scene that introduced the characters again!
Screenwriter Alfred Gough just lately spoke to EW concerning the model of the script that did embody the Maitlands within the new film. He additionally revealed why the scene was in the end reduce.
Gough defined: “There was a model [of the script] the place they only confirmed up on the finish, however the issue is that they’re ghosts. So that they type of wanted to appear to be they have been 35, which was by no means going to occur. I feel Tim felt, and Miles and I agreed, that their story had been advised. So how will we transfer on from that?”
Yeah, it didn’t actually make sense to carry them again. Their story was advised, and their inclusion simply would’ve added to an already messy and convoluted story.
However, it’s attention-grabbing to study what their preliminary plan was for the characters.
