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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice writers Al Gough and Miles Millar are up for a third film (but only when Tim Burton is ready)
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice writers Al Gough and Miles Millar hadn’t seen the original film in 20 years when they were tasked with writing the sequel (so they watched it eight times in one weekend)
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Do you love Beetlejuice? Do you love it enough to watch it eight times in one weekend? That’s just what Al Gough and Miles Millar did, but in fairness, they had an important reason. The screenwriting duo, who previously worked together showrunning Wednesday and Smallville, had just been tasked with writing the long-awaited Beetlejuice sequel.
“I’ll be honest, I hadn’t seen the movie [in 20 years],” Al Gough says during an appearance on the Happy Sad Confused podcast. “We spent the weekend basically watching the movie like eight times and then coming up with the pitch,” Miles Millar adds.
With the success of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, could a third movie be on the way? Gough and Millar are up for it, but they say it’s up to director Tim Burton. “That’s really going to come down to Tim and when he’s ready to engage in that,” Al Gough says. “I mean, we’ll stand by and be ready. Like [Beetlejuice Beetlejuice], it has to come from him. And he has to feel engaged.”
“I think that’s why the movie doesn’t feel cynical, because he very much wanted to make it. And Tim doesn’t do things for cynical reasons. He does things because he loves it and he wants to do it. And if it was a version he didn’t want to do, we wouldn’t have made it, to be honest.”
“We never get ahead of ourselves,” Miles Millar adds. “I’m sure the studio wants to do a third, but I think it’s really up to Tim and Michael [Keaton] and Winona [Ryder] if they want to do it. And Catherine [O’Hara].”
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