Tim Burton said during the Venice Film Festival press conference about "Beetlejuice Beetlejuice" that he didn't want to make the sequel "for the money." In fact, he didn't even rewatch the original before he started filming the sequel.

When Burton spoke about making a second installment, 35 years after his 1988 cult original, he revealed, “And I didn’t even watch it before I did it!”

"I didn't want to make a big sequel for money or anything, I wanted to make this for very personal reasons," Burton continued. "Like I said, I didn't watch the first movie to prepare for this. I remembered the spirit of it and I remembered everyone here."

Burton was on the panel at the press conference, along with returning stars Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara and Winona Ryder, and newcomers Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux and Willem Dafoe.