Alex Timbers Working With Warner Bros. on BEETLEJUICE Musical

The New York Post reports that director, Alex Timbers, fresh off his departure from Disney's upcoming Broadway production of Frozen, is set to helm an upcoming adaptation of the 1988 cult-classic, Beetlejuice.

Details surrounding the project are scarce but sources close to the production confirm that the show, produced by Warner Bros., is aiming for an 2018/2019 Broadway bow.

Timbers co-directed the Tony-winning play PETER AND THE STARCATCHER, ROCKY THE MUSICAL and most recently, THE ROBBER BRIDEGROOM and HERE LIES LOVE. Earlier this year, he helmed a developmental lab of FROZEN, featuring Betsy Wolf as Elsa, Patti Murin as Anna and Okieriete Onaodowan as Kristoff.

Beetlejuice is a 1988 comedy/fantasy, conceived and directed by Tim Burton. With a screenplay by Larry Wilson and Warren Skaaren, the film centers on Lydia, a young girl who has recently moved into a new home with her parents. As the house's former inhabitants, a young couple, become ghosts attempting to haunt their former home, they summon a malevolent spirit named Beetlejuice from the Netherworld to scare the family out of the house for good.

Read the full story at The New York Post.