 Burton was still interested in Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian in early 1991 . Impressed with Daniel Waters ' work on Heathers , Burton approached him for a rewrite . However , he eventually signed Waters to write the script for Batman Returns . By August 1993 , producer David Geffen hired Pamela Norris ( Troop Beverly Hills , Saturday Night Live ) to rewrite . Warner Bros. approached Kevin Smith in 1996 to rewrite the script , though Smith turned down the offer in favor of Superman Lives . Smith responded with , " Didn 't we say all we needed to say in the first Beetlejuice ? Must we go tropical ? " In March 1997 , Gems released a statement saying " The Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian script is still owned by The Geffen Film Company and it will likely never get made . You really couldn 't do it now anyway . Winona is too old for the role , and the only way they could make it would be to totally recast it . " 
