Should've went straight to streaming

"Beetlejuice has nothing to do with Batman"

A lot of films have nothing to do with one another but filmmakers are offered to direct big films based on their previous success. Batman was a huge ambitious film in 1989 and it was greenlit in 1988 on the back of the box-office success of Beetlejuice.

"They would've offered him Beetlejuice 2 if the movie itself was actually regarded so well"

Why? Not every film needs a sequel. Look at Top Gun in 1986. Huge box-office success and yet no interest in a sequel for years from the studios because it's only really in the last 15 years or so that Hollywood has been so short of ideas that sequels, remakes, and reboots seem to make up about 80% of their output now.

"I think that confuses an actor's performance with the movie itself"

It's a cult classic for more than just Keaton's performance. He's only in the original film for 17 minutes out of 90.

I'm not trying to convince you to like the film. If you think it's crap fair enough but you seem to be trying to downplay it's popularity.

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it even strengthens this case that they didn't ask for a sequel

They did.

The first plans for a Beetlejuice sequel came in 1990. Geffen commissioned scripts for it. Burton almost signed-up to make a film called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian in 1991 but chose to make Batman Returns instead.

There have been intermittent plans to make a second Beetlejuice movie ever since the first one was a hit. They just didn't materialise until now.

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