Star Michael Keaton ad-libbed many of his lines in this Tim Burton fantasy.

The original premise for Beetlejuice was a straight-up horror film that featured the titular character as a winged, demonic reptile. In screenwriter Michael McDowell's original script, he would then turn into a small Middle Eastern man and terrorize the Deetzes.

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