“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” a sequel based on characters by Alabama's Michael McDowell, debuts Sept. 6, 2024.
Michael McDowell is seen during filming of 1988's "Beetlejuice." The Alabama-born horror author co-wrote the screenplay and is credited in the upcoming sequel with creating the characters. He died in 1999.Michael McDowell was a natural writer, and he was naturally drawn to the macabre. Perhaps it’s no surprise that McDowell, who died in 1999 at age 49, is credited with creating one of the most beloved, creepy-cool film characters of all time – Beetlejuice, the mischievous ghost.
“There was little in his background to indicate that he would become a prolific writer on the occult, the supernatural, madness and the psyches of serial killers,” wrote Myrna Oliver in McDowell’s obituary in the “It began as a screenplay, but his new agents, Jane and David Otte, recommended he rewrite it as a novel,” Senelick said. “It was accepted almost at once.”
McDowell went to graduate school and began work on his PhD at Brandeis, entitled “American Attitudes Towards Death, 1825-1865.” “When Beetlejuice was optioned he decided to be bi-coastal,” Ann McDowell said. “So, he called and asked if I’d like to move from Alabama and stay in the apartment while he went back and forth .”“I went to the set one time and that was for the opening scene,” Ann McDowell said. “I had no idea people were going to like it. I had no experience with the movie business and had nothing to base an opinion on.
Senelick said that prose came more naturally for McDowell. “He had to learn the format of screenwriting, and since filmmaking is a collaborative process, I doubt he found the same personal satisfaction in it,” Senelick said. “Some screenplays were made without his name on the screen, though he was paid; others went through innumerable rewrites and went unproduced. Whereas any prose he wrote was published.
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