Danny Elfman Talks “Very Exciting” Return For ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel.

It will soon be SHOWTIME on Tim Burton’s long awaited sequel to Beetlejuice and one key factor for that film to get fans behind it even more so than Michael Keaton or Winona Ryder returning is of course composer Danny Elfman working on the project.

In a recent chat with our friends at Deadline, Elfman commented on his return to composing for Burton for the long awaited sequel.

“I love being a fly on the wall when he’s shooting. I’ll be doing that in a couple of months, as you may know, on another Tim Burton project,” said Elfman during the taping for an upcoming episode of Deadline’s The Process, alluding to the sequel. “That is very exciting, to return to that world.”

When asked how Michael Keaton would be playing “the ghost with the most” once more “I said, ‘He’s not even going to look that much different. That’s the beauty of the Beetlejuice makeup. He already looked like he was 150 in the first one.'”

Continued Elfman, “It’s perfect, you know? Everybody else has to play the next generation, except for Michael. I mean, he’s still like really fit and really active and really on it. And with the Beetlejuice makeup, I can’t even imagine it’s going to look like he’s changed practically at all. So, I can’t wait for that.”

Details as to the sequel’s plot are under wraps, though it’s understood that Burton will return to direct from a script by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the co-creators and co-showrunners of the smash hit Netflx series Wednesday, on which he is a direct and EP, and for which Elfman has composed the score.

Keaton and Ryder are expected to reprise their roles, with Jenna Ortega joining the cast as the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia. Brad Pitt’s Plan B is also aboard the project, which will shoot this summer in London.

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