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Tobey was out of practice in NWH but he's quite clearly that awkward Peter twenty years later. Keaton is just a bad plot device here. He's not the lowkey eccentric loner who lives solely to save other people from going through what he did. That's fine - it's thirty years later, and he should have changed. But he's nobody in this movie. I couldn't give you one adjective to describe his personality. If someone told me a year ago that I'd love watching Miller in this and that Keaton's role would be my least favourite part.... Also, Muschietti doing Burton was literally just some fog for like thirty seconds of footage. Having said all that, I am a weak male and seeing Keaton's Batman jump around to Elfman's theme did give me the cheap thrill that was intended.

He's not a character in this at all. It was depressing.

Kraven is the coolest not-yet-used Spidey villain, so this makes me sad.

Man, people really hated the baby rescue scene? I was roaring.

I liked this. I even cried (I'm a mummy's boy). Miller is kinda incredible here. It's an interesting counterpoint to NWH, where the throwback characters' inclusion made absolutely no sense if you think about it for a second, but they're (mostly) well-realised. Here, Keaton's Batman and Supergirl work on a plot level, but at no point do they feel like living characters. I could watch Keaton's Batman flip around to that theme all day every day, but he was given absolute scraps here. That made me sad.

"[Burton] and I were talking about it years and years ago, never telling anybody. I said, ‘if it happens, first of all, we’ve both said we’re doing it many times. We both agreed, if it happens, it has to be done as close to the way we made it the first time. Making stuff up, making stuff happen, improvising and riffing, but literally handmade stuff like people creating things with their hands and building something. F--kin’ great. It’s the most fun I’ve had working on a movie in I can’t tell you how long." Michael Keaton Talks The ‘Handmade’ Feel Of Beetlejuice 2 | Movies | Empire (empireonline.com)

Under 30 here, and Keaton is my Batman.

Nolan is the most sexless director about. The nudity is gonna be so sterile. Can't wait.

Could this be...huge? I don't trust Burton to stick the landing at all, but it seems like Beetlejuice has really stuck around. It was the 30th best selling disc of 2021 - the only 'older' movie that sold more was Top Gun. In fall 2020, when older "horror" movies were being re-released in theatres, it outgrossed Halloween (1978 and 2018), Nightmare on Elm Street and Scream. A year ago, Quorum polled audiences on hypothetical legacy sequels to 80s movies. In terms of awareness, Beetlejuice 2 landed just behind Indiana Jones and The Little Mermaid. In terms of interest, it actually came out on top - ahead of Indiana Jones and The Little Mermaid - and this is all when the sequel was only rumoured. Again, I don't think Burton will pull it off, but take all that interest and add Jenna Ortega (who is apparently the lead)....

Haris Zambarloukos is the DP. I'm glad Ben Davis was just a one-off.

Keaton is in London shooting Beetlejuice 2.

White Noise being just that and 65 bombing means that Driver knows he needs a hit to still be an auteur plaything.

It has been said loads before, but it really is depressing to see Keaton's Batman in a not-great-visually movie.

I'm a slag for Temple of Doom, too. Parade of the Slave Children is an all-time banger.

Catherine O Hara has been filming in Hawaii....

Catherine O'Hara's return being buried in an article about another cast member's casting. 💀

Really hoping for another Carpenter & Sons score.

I know they normally aren't reliable, but GiantFreakinRobot, who were the first to report that Justin Theroux was in the movie, are now saying that Willem Dafoe is going to play a ghostly cop.

I would've opened it a bit later so it could leg it through the run-up to Halloween, but what do I know. Pretty much every Deadline article about this movie gives conflicting information.

Would've loved to have seen Courteney (and Ghostface) onstage to accept the award. She'll probably make a silly Instagram video.

Almost as embarrassing as writing music for the coronation.

Gough and Millar. Stinky poo.

Shooting to begin on June 9th. Writers Strike Movie Production Impact: ‘Gladiator’ Sequel, ‘Beetlejuice’ Brave Shoots – Deadline

Even Gale's first interaction with Sam.in 5 is worlds away from how she was in the others. She was warm, genuinely concerned about Sam and didn't wait for the cameras. That was her without Dewey or Sid. Courteney did say she felt Gale was out of character in that movie, and as Exec Producer maybe she pushed for this, but even at that, having her be cold and cruel and then immediately warm and maternal (!) was really bizarre.