PRODUCTION BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE
SEEN A GHOST? Winona Ryder and Michael Keaton reprise their original roles
WE THOUGHT ABOUT what these characters would be like now AND HOW YOU WOULD SEE THAT human condition progress ”
When it came to initial conversations about the look of the film, Burton made everyone feel at ease about recreating the look of the original Beetlejuice . “It’s Tim’s film 36 years later, following the same family,” continues Zambarloukos. “He is a man of very few words and prefers drawing to talking, so there were lots of illustrations and work by the art department that he guided. I also felt I needed to spent time quietly with Tim and just listen, without asking too many questions. It would naturally happen in a conversation, location scout or a walk over a set, in the way that we looked at certain images. Then, I gradually made some suggestions about certain things and we took it from there. We thought
about what these characters would be like now and how you would see that human condition progress; that informed all my decisions.” Burton was adamant about the film being as much in camera as possible, relying heavily upon his animatronic, puppeteering and on-set special effects
team – with all departments working in unison. Zambarloukos also looked at the films of Mario Bava as reference. “Bava’s films are Tim’s favourite,” he admits. “I’d obviously seen his films, but hadn’t really understood them in that way. I went back to my own early filmmaking education, studying what’s handmade and what’s
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