Saturday, September 10, 2011

"Beetlejuice" Sequel Coming, and Another Stop-Motion Film?

Deadline reports that a Beetlejuice sequel will likely come into existence at some point. KatzSmith Productions partners David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith (author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, as well as the screenwriter for the film versions of Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter and Tim Burton's Dark Shadows) have just signed a two-year first-look feature producing deal at Warner Bros., and one of their first projects will be a sequel to the 1988 comedy. Grahame-Smith will likely write the script for the sequel. No word on a projected release date as of yet.

Other projects that may be included in the deal are We Three Kings (an adaptation of Grahame-Smith's next revisionist novel about what the Three Wise Men were really up to on Christmas Eve), Bryantology (about a man who invents a religion based around himself as a tax loophole) and, most interestingly, Night of the Living, a stop-motion animated comedy about a town of monsters who find themselves besieged by an invasion of living humans, which Tim Burton himself might be producing with KatzSmith.

4 comments:

Marti said...

mmm, fine news!

Unknown said...

Check out this Danny Elfman and Tim Burton 25th Anniversary Music box, totally a collectors item.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lDsz4iJxIyk&feature=player_embedded

definitely bit of a nostalgic piece.

Anonymous said...

Another Beetlejuice movie should only be made if: 1. Tim Burton is directing; 2. Michael Keaton returns (and isn't "passing the torch" to a younger bio-exorcist; and 3. he "goes Hawaiian" as originally intended. Otherwise, DON'T MESS WITH BEETLEJUICE!!!!

deadhearts666 said...

Ohh how I would love to see another Beetlejuice, as long as it is his original script. As Anonymous said, "Beetlejuice goes Hawaiian". Very well put.