Surprisingly, Beetlejuice 2 is not something he’s jumping on right away. The other day, Tim Burton told us he’s waiting on the writer’s take on the sequel. But it appears Grahame-Smith has some other things he needs to tackle first.
“Everyone is waiting for me to get my ass in gear,” Grahame-Smith said. “I just finished a script called Night of the Living, and I’m giving it to Tim this weekend. And I’m moving now into adapting Unholy Night, which I have to deliver to Warner Bros. I’ve got to do this, then I’m going around the world for Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, so I’ll be writing Unholy Night on the plane and in hotel rooms.”
When we last reported on Night of the Living, I speculated that the plot could be a unique twist on Night of the Living Dead, except that the humans were a threat to the zombies and not vice versa.
Smith said with a smile: “[It’s] not just zombies. Let me put it this way, Tim and I are big fans of classic movie monsters. The title pretty much where you’re going to be at. Plus, it’s a Tim Burton stop motion-animated movie. That movie for me is my love letter to all of the movies I grew up on.”
Stay tuned for more with Grahame-Smith as he talks about Dark Shadows.
