"The movie Beetlejuice had come out a little before this, and I suddenly had this horrible fear that we were gonna be turned into that kind of wacky movie. Jerry Zucker, the director of spoof comedies Airplane and The Naked Gun, ended up getting the job. In the second scene, his father's ghost appears and says, 'Avenge my death.' When I saw that, something in me went, 'Yes! That's the engine I need to drive this film.' I loved the idea that a guy who is dead has to figure out who killed him and why, but it wasn't enough, so I had to add one more element, which was the urgency of having to save the life of the woman he loves." ![]() I originally thought he would be a suicide, but then I saw a production of Hamlet. "I didn't know what the story was, except I knew that it should be a about a man who didn't believe in anything. I was working on other scripts and ideas – in this time I wrote the script for Jacob's Ladder – and while I was doing that, I decided I wanted to tell a ghost story from the side of the ghost. One of those got made by Brian DePalma, called Brainstorm, which was Natalie Wood's last film. ![]() "I wrote a few early scripts as a way of learning how to be a screenwriter. The film took its inspiration from Shakespeare.
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