The actor has revealed he's signed with director Tim Burton to star in the sequel

Feb 15, 2014 07:27 GMT  ·  By

“Beetlejuice” was an oddly successful horror comedy in 1988 that went on to become a cult movie. Today, it's been revealed that not only are there plans for a sequel, but it's also going to star the actor that played Beetlejuice in the original.

The news comes via MTV who had an interview with Keaton and confirmed everyone's suspicions, “I've e-mailed Tim a couple of times, talked to the writer a couple of times, but all really, really preliminary stuff. I always said that's the one thing I'd like to do again, if I ever did anything again. But it kind of required Tim to be involved some way or another.”

It's also worth mentioning that there have been rumors going around Hollywood about this production for years. There was talk that even Winona Ryder was going to join the cast after she'd starred in the original and that writer Seth Grathame-Smith was working on the script since 2012.

“Now it looks like he is involved,” Keaton revealed in his interview, "And without giving too much away we've talked to each other, and e-mailed each other, and if he's in, it's going to be hard not to be in.”