Tim Burton Wanted Sammy Davis Jr. To Play Beetlejuice | Late Night with Conan O’Brien

[@Denis-89]

Wow, this is the most communicative I have ever seen Burton! Didn't even think he did interviews...

[@jamesbrennan7355]

You thought wrong

[@_.Michael.Cordova._]

watch his interview with Ray Harryhuasen!

[@Awesomebr099]

@@_.Michael.Cordova._ Just watched that last night, so insightful

[@Dizzyfingers2]

@@_.Michael.Cordova._ Came here to say this!

[@FernandoLopez-tx6lr]

Sleepy Hollow is a GREAT movie!

[@andreabruson5558]

Tim Burton on Conan is a great combo! 🖤

[@lonelyone]

I can't believe I ever missed Tim Burton talking about seeing Edward Penishands! I didn't even realize they made a sequel. Worlds collide, dude.

[@BigGahmBoss]

Having a porn made of your movie must be the cinematic equivalent of Weird Al doing a parody of your song: it's how you know you've made it

[@lbks16]

AI does parody of my music and I'm not in the top 5 music producers.

[@flagg85]

Acid in the pool, good joke.

[@terminalbungus9566]

Tim Burton laughs like a stoner and I am HERE FOR IT

[@AttilatheThrilla]

He also looks like one lol

[@masterofallgoons]

Hope this means he's on the podcast soon!

[@QuantumBraced]

I didn't know what Tim Burton looked like until now and he looks very much like his movies if that makes sense.

[@Trendyflute]

Really interesting guy, I thought I'd seen him interviewed before but I guess I never have. Down with the MPAA!

[@MGBranco]

Always loved his movies. Really a bright man!

[@FineFictMen]

1:51 - What I came here for! 😂

[@Kp-pk9nl]

Can’t choose which favorite Tim Burton movie of mine is number one . They’re all so good!

[@broaddusmarines]

Pee Wee’s Big Adventure. I’m so serious too. That movie is absolutely perfect.

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

Beetlejuice Edward Scissorhands Pee Wee's Big Adventure

[@jeremyphillips3087]

I wouldn't say they're allll good.

[@nicholasmoose6574]

I'm gonna be the only person who says Mars Attacks! Hold's a special place in my heart. Second favorite is Ed Wood. Nobody else is gonna mention that one either.

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

@@nicholasmoose6574 Big Fish is also really good.

[@cl759]

That great clip would have been perfect if it was cigarette smoke representing fog 🤣🤣

[@tavomontana3302]

Conan i love you, saludos desde Tijuana BC the happiest place on earth

[@deadinthebed963]

Conan sort of looks like one of Tim Burton's characters. The pasty orange. cool 🖤

[@ComicalRealm]

Interesting trivia: At one point, Tim Burton considered Arnold Schwarzenegger for the role of Betelgeuse. However, The Geffen Company felt that due to Schwarzenegger's reputation at the time as an action star, people wouldn't take it seriously. But Burton approached Schwarzenegger anyway. He turned it down, as he was busy shooting The Running Man (1987).

[@gauravvikalp]

I can’t imagine that at all!

[@trevors.5998]

I can’t stop watching Seven Hunnid on KZbin .. I’m addicted to his KZbin videos

[@Jzscrstsprstr]

Betelgeuse? :)

[@willshaw3493]

Sam Kinison was supposed to do the role, but they wouldn't make his manager an associate producer, so he was never told about it.

[@jamesbrennan7355]

@@Jzscrstsprstr its the proper spelling and pronounciation of the characters name

[@jonalexander9312]

I never really thought Burton did interviews.

[@bluetextonwhitebg]

he's not dead. i just saved y'all 3 seconds of your life. you're welcome.

[@jewslikefunk]

Thanks for confirming man!

[@jeremyphillips3087]

nah, sammy davis junior died in the nineties.

[@tobicrowther]

Oh fr? How u read my mind lmao

[@seanwebb605]

I thought that their headless horseman trailer would have John Bobbitt. His head was decapitated too. And he performed in an adult movie.

[@jamlym4974]

I've seen a lot of Tim Burton interviews and almost every one he's asked about being an outcast. Wonder if he ever gets tired of it.

[@masterofallgoons]

Most likely these were topics that were agreed upon before the interview.. that's how late night talk shows generally work

[@korypo303]

One of the GREATS!

[@dsanchez9703]

Love sammy jr

[@MasterChris666]

first time to see this video 2021 omggg

[@joseapsantos3633]

Boa tarde, esse Cineasta é muito divertido numa bela entravista. Adorei o vídeo.

[@frankjosephdaniels3733]

I wonder if this interview is what made him want to do claymation movies

[@Priceless_Artifact]

More Tim please!

[@zohaib_a]

He looks a lot like Nicolas Cage here.

[@samaramorgan713]

His brother yeah!!!

[@seanwilliams1051]

Edward four fingers and Inside Alice in wonderland, also have to say Sleepy hollow is my favourite from Tim burton.

[@scheddoc]

he’s such a dork (in a good way)

[@jamlym4974]

I'm a simple man. I see Tim Burton, I click.

[@cecilyerker]

Tim Burton and Alice Cooper could be brothers

[@deznunez8231]

Did they even talk about beetle juice? Lol

[@igormendonca4026]

agreeable ENTP with developed Fe

[@iammunhu]

5:11 - uh, UH?

[@trolierthanthou4041]

He looks like Wybie Lovat from Coraline

[@RoadWarrior-lo9vt]

Chris Walken was awesome in Sleepy Hollow. Perfect choice!

[@Woozlewuzzleable]

Time to google Tim Burton to see if he died. Edit: No, still alive.

[@Jiv_Ing57819]

Love burton, he can't seem to make a bad film, perhaps willy wonka is the closest ,:-0

[@cooperwolfe5478]

I would say Planet of the Apes was his worst.

[@bobkerr2755]

Musicians aren't a success until they've been parodied by weird al Directors aren't a success until they've been parodied by the porn industry

[@greenrobot5]

If it wasn't for this man and his dark aesthetic Batman would still be portraid wearing blue spandex

[@milesmayhem5440]

No he wouldn’t.

[@elijahstark3663]

@@milesmayhem5440 yes he would because before Tim Burton’s version of Batman was green lit Warner bros wanted bill Murray to be Batman similar to how Adam west did it

[@DoctorFurioso]

@@elijahstark3663 That's because Ivan Reitman (Ghostbusters, Stripes) was in charge so it probably would have been awesome, if weird. But, '80s Batman was already extremely dark. Those were the Frank Miller and Alan Moore years, so it's nonsense to say Burton had anything to do with changing the mood. If anything, his film was a step back from what has happening in print.

[@DoctorFurioso]

And Warner Bros obviously didn't want that anyway, since they dropped Reitman/Murray.

[@FedorMachida]

He looks like smaller and younger version of Nic Cage, imo

[@MasterChris666]

Halloween is coming

[@screwthenet]

Thank the powers that Sammy Davis Jr never played beetlejuice...it would have been a trainwreck D grade film only fit for the most stoned or drunk to waste time upon.

[@screwthenet]

PLus ironic that no fictional beheading could be shown on Conan, yet the news gets away with showing REAL executions...*smfh* MEdia is poisonous so often. THankfully Tim did drugs :P

[@michaelfellabaum8022]

kind of looks like the even more hill billy cousin of Nicholas Cage.

[@ImmanentizeTheEschaton]

Oh man. Don't watch Edward Penishands. I had the SAME THOUGHT as Tim about the.. uh.. mechanics of the film, but it was more disturbing than I was prepared to witness.

[@GaryTurbo]

He should do a Marlon Wayans Nightwing movie

[@WhateverHappenedToFun]

Sleepy Hollow was his last masterpiece. Hollywood misused him, what a waste.... but the writings were on the wall check that mess called 'Mars Attacks'...

[@masterofallgoons]

Mars Attacks was his blank check movie, it was all him. Also it's a completely fun and absurd parody.

[@WhateverHappenedToFun]

​@@masterofallgoons As far as I am concerned 'Mars Attacks' (like 'Alice In Wonderland') was a great project but only on paper. For sure they were somethin' that could fit it him but the final product is pretty disheartening. The reason behind this disaster is almost always the same: the screenplay. It wasn't wrote by Burton but by Jonathan Gems that never wrote a masterpiece and this movie ain't an exception. It was so sad to see such extraordinary director with such extraordinary cast in such disappointing movie. There's a fine line between bein' a parody of '50s movies and bein' a bad movie inspired by the '50s movies and this movie, from my point of view, went too far. In 'Mars Attacks' there's too much '90s cynism and disillusion so I can't find it fun. And, as I wrote in the thesis about him, it went against Burton first commandament: "Never, ever, use C.G.I."

[@masterofallgoons]

@@WhateverHappenedToFun - I can't agree.. I think the chaotic insanity is the fun of it.. It's filled with great performances and captures the slapped together spirit of the 50s sci-fi movies that he made a loving homage to in his previous film Ed Wood (the person I wrote a thesis about) which is a legit masterwork, but Mars Attacks is a fun throwback.. it's dumb and silly and chaotic, and that's the entire point. By the way it was also written in part by Scott Alexander and Larry Karazewski who wrote Ed Wood and a number of other excellent films... just for the record. Also, Sweeney Todd is great and so is Frankenweenie Also also, Burton never said he'd never use CGI. I love practical effects but he used even a small digital effect as early as Batman Returns, and there's actually quite a bit of CGI in Sleepy Hollow.. it's just blended well with the practical

[@rodneybryant6543]

Considering Hollywood's racist history, I wonder if executives refusal of hiring Sammy was racist since the director chose Sammy initially.

[@ChirpyMike]

No he didn't.

[@Edwardshakyhands]

That would have been the first black person ever featured in a Tim Burton film

[@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358]

Let me call bullshit on that really quick - Billy Dee Williams, Ken Page, and Samuel L Jackson, for three off the top of my head, James Liao is Asian.

[@beensupe]

@@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358 it’s honestly astonishing how people like OP will just spout off bullshit to get likes, thanks for correcting them

[@Edwardshakyhands]

@@warlockofwordsreturnsrb4358 Yes because I meant that 100% literally and wasn't just making a joke

[@aquilegia9734]

@@Edwardshakyhands There was nothing in your comment to indicate it wasn't meant literally. Fact is you tried to smear Tim Burton by implying he is racist in order to score yourself some woke points, but you failed miserably because it turned out you didn't know the facts. Trying to safe face afterwards by claiming "it was just a joke" is honestly a little hypocritical.

[@masterofallgoons]

@@Edwardshakyhands - I think everyone knows it was a joke, but the issue is just that the joke is terrible

[@gionnijohnson69]

I still don't like Conan.