{"id":33687,"date":"2013-01-07T18:19:23","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=33687"},"modified":"2013-01-07T18:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-07T18:37:03","slug":"beetlejuice-2-seth-grahame-smith-on-respecting-the-absurdity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/exclusive\/beetlejuice-2-seth-grahame-smith-on-respecting-the-absurdity\/","title":{"rendered":"Beetlejuice 2: “Let it be strange” says Seth Grahame-Smith"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Michael Keaton in the original Beetlejuice<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Early 2012, Beetlejuice<\/em><\/a> fans everywhere were hit with the news that there will be a sequel on its way, more than 25 years after the original. All we knew was that it was not going to be a reboot and that Michael Keaton would be starring as the pesky crotch-grabbing poltergeist.<\/p>\n

Now we’ve spoken to writer Seth Grahame-Smith (who also penned Dark Shadows<\/em><\/a> and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter<\/em><\/a>), who’s confirmed they have found their premise. “I’ve spoken to Tim [Burton]<\/a> recently about it and he has some very certain ideas about what it should be and I’m really excited to write it,” Grahame-Smith tells us.<\/p>\n

“Talk about pressure and scrutiny though, for some people it would be like making a sequel to Citizen Kane<\/em>,” he continues. “The thing that scares me and the thing I love about Beetlejuice project is there are very few ways to get it right and a whole host of ways to get it wrong.”<\/p>\n

The original idea for a sequel back in 1990 was to move the Deetz family to Hawaii. They would develop a resort on ancient burial ground and Beetlejuice would win a surfing contest.<\/p>\n

“I’m not sure it would have worked but Tim [Burton] wanted to shoot it like one of those old Beach Bingo, Sixties teen surf movies and Beetlejuice wins a surfing contest,” he says. “It was so crazy-ridiculous that it would have been a spectacle no matter what.<\/p>\n

“That’s the thing with Beetlejuice<\/em>, you have to respect the absurdity of it all; you can’t try to corral this character into a conventional movie. You have to let the movie be strange.”<\/p>\n

Seth Grahame-Smith’s latest novel-soon-to-be-movie Unholy Night is available now priced £7.98 from Amazon.co.uk<\/a>.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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