Beetlejuice Beetlejuice director Tim Burton explains how the movie drew him back into the industry after he became disillusioned. Serving as a sequel to his 1988 cult classic, Burton’s upcoming dark comedy features the return of Michael Keaton as bioexorcist Betelgeuse. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice‘s trailers have already teased a return to the tone and visual style of the original film, in addition to returns from cast members Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, who played Lydia and Delia, respectively, in the first movie.

In a recent interview with Empire, Burton explains that he had become somewhat burnt out on the movie business, but Beetlejuice Beetlejuice drew him back in. In addition to having an interest in further exploring the character of Lydia, the director reveals that his experience executive producing Wednesday, which stars Jenna Ortega, encouraged him to return to the world of his 1988 film. Check out his full comment below:

“I actually had sort of lost interest in the movie industry. I felt like I’d had enough with studios. I’d had enough of all this kind of stuff.”

“From the first [film], I really identified with Lydia. It was a character that I understood, that I felt very strongly about. The new film became very personal to me, through the Lydia character. What happened to Lydia? You know, what happens to people? What happens to all of us? What’s your journey from a gothic kind of weird teenager to what happens to you 35 years later?

“Sometimes, as you get older, you lose yourself a little bit. That’s very much how I feel, and felt. You go down a path – for me, I started making movies, I make some good ones, I make some bad, you take a journey.

So that’s what made this more of an important and personal thing for me, all those feelings. You have relationships that change you, you have kids that change you. After all these years, that became the reason to make it. I identified with Lydia back then, and I identify with her now.”

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Source: Empire