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The Big Picture Alfred Gough and his writing partner Miles Millar are blockbuster gasoline. They’ve brought us Jackie Chan classics, Mummy expeditions, and hundreds of tales from Smallville. Through their wildly prolific 30-year writing partnership, Gough and Millar have kept audiences laughing and at their edge of their seats.
ALFRED GOUGH: That's an excellent question. I think the surprising thing that you learn is that you are actually the CEO of a $60 to $100 million startup, is really what you are. We've always said this: you take, in our case, two guys who wrote together in Miles 's apartment. You write something, then you are literally put in charge of a business and there's no training program. There's certainly more now than there was 20–25 years ago when Miles and I started.
‘Beetlejuice 2' Is The Biggest Hit In Gough’s 30-Year Career "The last thing we want to do is destroy peoples' childhood memories." Jumping into Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Huge opening weekend. What was your dream for opening weekend? Were you like,"Please let it make over $50 ," or were you like,"Please let it make over $100?”
Cracking the Screenplay to ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ “It's the Deetz women and all the terrible men in their lives!” What were some of the big changes that happened along the way? Did you have a storyline that you really loved that didn't make it? Or was it because the process was so different, because you're really just dealing with the director, that it really never went through crazy...
That's really how it started, but the structure of the movie was kind of the structure of the movie even from the outline.
I have some questions from Maggie, who runs our news team. Winona Ryder has made no secret that she would love to see Beetlejuice and Lydia end up together.
How did you guys decide exactly what the ending was going to be? I'll be honest with you, I've been reading people's comments, and there are some people who wanted it to end with Lydia and Astrid just on the trip together, and that's where it ends.
Did the film actually end up with a lot of deleted scenes? I haven't spoken to Tim, so I don't really know.I was just curious. I'm always fascinated if there's a big storyline that got cut out. You know what I mean? By the way, I never thought it was going to suck , but I also didn't realize it was going to be so good. I think Tim is one of the reasons because he's a fantastic director. His episodes really set the tone and pull you in. The director really matters.
GOUGH: It's interesting, eight has kind of become the number. Believe me, look, we worked in 22 episodes, we've done 10 episodes, we've done all iterations of this. Basic cable took us from 22 episodes to, like, 13 episodes, right? Then you thought,"Okay, you can tell the story," and you had a few what I call “wheel-spinners.” I think in a 13-episode season, there were three wheel-spinners. Then they went to a 10-episode season, and we've done that too.
Not to sound mystical or like a cop-out, what's interesting about a television show is, it tells you what it can and can't do. We used to do this with Smallville — Smallville had some great episodes, and then it had things it couldn't do. For instance, Smallville couldn't do magic. Those episodes sucked. You learn that, and you don't do those anymore. But you know what I mean. It's interesting what a show tells you.
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