Beetlejuice’s Original Void Would Have Explained The Afterlife’s Weird Time Changes 35 Years Ago

An early Beetlejuice script saw the Maitlands fall into a very different “limbo” world than the one inhabited by Sandworms, which would have helped explain the mysterious way that time moves in the afterlife. After dying in Beetlejuice’s opening sequence, Barbara and Adam Maitland (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) slowly learn the rules of the afterlife through either trial and error or guidance from the Handbook for the Recently Deceased. When first accepting their fates, the Maitlands learn some big truths about the afterlife by stepping into a world in which time movies incredibly slowly.