WTF Happened to Beetlejuice?
2,821With Tim Burton’s long-awaited Beetlejuice 2 finally being confirmed yesterday, with a September 2024 release date set by Warner Bros, now’s the perfect time to revisit the 1988 classic that made Burton and his star, Michael Keaton, household names. The film is about an obnoxious “bio-exorcist” named Beetlejuice, hired by a ghostly couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) to rid their home of its new human owners, it was such a phenomenon that the studio trusted the director to take on Batman as his next movie. They even let him cast Beetlejuice himself, Michael Keaton, as the Caped Crusader, in what was seen as the most against-type casting of its era.
In this episode of WTF Happened to Beetlejuice, we track the film’s journey to the small screen and how this bizarre movie became a comedy classic that’s stood the test of time. We examine how Keaton and his co-stars Winona Ryder and Geena Davis became megastars following the film’s success, with Alec Baldwin and Catherine O’Hara also getting notable early roles. We also take a look at how Danny Elfman’s score added to the film’s vibe, with it notably making the late Harry Belafonte’s “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song) and Jump in the Line (Shake Señora) massive hits decades after they original came out.
This episode of WTF Happened to this Movie is written and narrated by Mathew Plale and edited by Ric Solomon. Are you excited for Beetlejuice 2? Let us know in the comments!
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