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It’s (almost) showtime! Over 30 years aft Tim Burton‘s Beetlejuice came out, a sequel movie is yet successful the works. Jenna Ortega, 1 of Hollywood’s brightest young stars, is acceptable to play the girl of Winona Ryder‘s character, Lydia Deetz, portion Winona volition reprise her iconic role. Michael Keaton volition suit up arsenic Betelgeuse erstwhile again and precocious opened up astir returning to the iconic role.
For those that haven’t seen it, Beetlejuice follows deceased mates Adam and Barbara Maitland, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis, who effort to scare distant a household present surviving successful their house. They marque interaction with an over-the-top bio-exorcist named Betelgeuse, but his antics lone complicate matters.
Beetlejuice 2 was officially confirmed successful February 2022, per Deadline, with Brad Pitt‘s Plan B Entertainment producing alongside Warner Bros. From the merchandise day to the formed and crew, HollywoodLife has rounded up everything to cognize astir the highly-anticipated sequel.
Beetlejuice was released successful 1998 and has go a Halloween favourite (Photo: Everett Collection)
Beetlejuice 2 Cast & Crew
The original Beetlejuice stars Catherine O’Hara and Jeffrey Jones arsenic Delia and Charles Deetz, who determination into the Maitland’s aged location and go terrorized by Betelgeuse. Winona Ryder plays their goth teenage daughter, Lydia Deetz, who becomes friends with the affable Maitland ghosts.
So far, Michael Keaton, Winona, Geena, and Catherine are the formed members acceptable to instrumentality for Beetlejuice 2. The movie wouldn’t beryllium imaginable without Betelgeuse himself, truthful convey goodness Michael’s coming back!
“Beetlejuice is the astir f***in’ amusive you tin person working. It’s truthful fun, it’s truthful great. And you cognize what it is? We’re doing it precisely similar we did the archetypal movie,” Michael told Empire.
Michael Keaton arsenic Betelgeuse. (Warner Bros./Everett Collection)
The histrion continued, “[Burton] and I were talking astir it years and years ago, ne'er telling anybody. We’ve some said we’re doing it galore times. We some agreed, if it happens, it has to beryllium done arsenic adjacent to the mode we made it the archetypal time. Making worldly up, making worldly happen, improvising and riffing, but virtually handmade worldly similar radical creating things with their hands and gathering something.” He added, “It’s the astir amusive I’ve had moving connected a movie successful I can’t archer you however long.”
Winona, who presently stars successful Netflix’s Stranger Things, antecedently expressed involvement successful starring successful a Beetlejuice sequel. “I emotion Lydia Deetz truthful much. She was specified a immense portion of me,” Winona told The Daily Beast in 2013. “I would beryllium truly funny successful what she is doing 27 years later.”
Other formed members’ returns person yet to beryllium announced. Alec’s instrumentality is questionable owed to the contention from the Rust shooting incident. Geena Davis’ instrumentality is besides unclear, but she told PEOPLE successful 2022 that she “would, of course, similar to revisit” the character.
Jenna Ortega astatine the ‘Wednesday’ premiere. (Shutterstock)
In March 2023, it was reported by The Hollywood Reporter that Wednesday breakout prima Jenna Ortega was successful talks to articulation the sequel. Her casting was confirmed successful April 2023 astatine CinemaCon. This marks her 2nd task with Burton, who is expected to nonstop Beetlejuice 2.
The celebrated filmmaker has been asked astir having Johnny Depp star in Beetlejuice 2 and didn’t contradict thing erstwhile helium spoke to MTV about the anticipation successful 2012. Tim and Johnny bask moving unneurotic and person already brought unthinkable films to the screen, specified arsenic Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hallow, Charlie & The Chocolate Factory, and Sweeney Todd. However, Johnny’s imaginable relation whitethorn beryllium successful jeopardy due to the fact that of his defamation trial against Amber Heard, which has impacted his career.
The Maitlands are played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. (Photo: Everett Collection)
Tim is listed arsenic the film’s manager per IMDb, and helium has confirmed his involvement successful the past. In 2015, helium told Collider he would motion connected to nonstop a sequel if it made sense. “This is the thing, it’s thing that I’m funny in, but there’s truthful galore stories [online], dumping Michael Keaton for Johnny Depp and this oregon that, and I’ve talked to these radical and they didn’t wanna perceive this truthful they conscionable made up a story,” helium pressed.
“But the information of it is I person talked to Michael and I person talked to Winona, I’ve talked to a fewer people,” helium continued. “It’s thing that I truly would similar to bash successful the close circumstances, but it’s 1 of those films wherever it has to beryllium right. It’s not a benignant of a movie that cries retired [for a sequel], it’s not the Beetlejuice trilogy. So it’s thing that if the elements are close — due to the fact that I bash emotion the quality and Michael’s astonishing arsenic that character, truthful yea we’ll see. But there’s thing factual yet.” That’s surely promising!
Michael shared a akin sentiment erstwhile helium spoke astir the imaginable sequel successful 2016. “It’s imaginable that vessel has sailed,” helium told Variety. “The lone mode to bash it is to bash it right. So overmuch of it was improvised, and truthful overmuch was beautifully handmade by the creator that is Tim Burton. If you can’t get adjacent to that, you permission it alone.”
Furthermore, Geena revealed that she “would of people similar to revisit” Beetlejuice in an October 2022 chat with PEOPLE, but besides said she has nary accusation astir the sequel and has not yet been contacted astir it. “I privation to play each quality I’ve ever played again,” she added. As mentioned before, Plan B Entertainment and Warner Bros. volition nutrient Beetlejuice 2.
The Link To The Original Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice (Photo: Everett Collection)
Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren wrote the screenplay for the archetypal Beetlejuice, portion Tim directed. The movie was a monolithic deed aft its 1998 merchandise and adjacent won the Academy Award for Best Makeup successful 1999. Its occurrence spawned galore offshoots, starting with an animated TV bid of the aforesaid sanction that ran connected ABC, and past Fox, from 1989 to 1991. Tim produced the project. Then, respective Beetlejuice video games were released, starting successful 1990. The fashionable movie was besides adapted into a Broadway signifier philharmonic that opened successful April 2019. The amusement closed successful March 2020 owed to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened astatine the Marquis Theatre successful April 2022.
No crippled details person been revealed for Beetlejuice 2. It would marque consciousness for the sequel to instrumentality spot galore years aft the events of the archetypal film. Spoiler alert: Beetlejuice ends with the Deetzes and Maitlands surviving successful the location harmoniously, portion Betelgeuse ends up successful the afterlife waiting country and gets his caput shrunk by a witch doctor.
Production Trivia
It’s been a agelong roadworthy to Beetlejuice 2. Plans for the sequel began successful 1990 erstwhile Tim hired Jonathan Gems to constitute a 2nd movie called Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, per ScreenRant. It would’ve focused connected the Deetzes moving to Hawaii, wherever they are haunted by a spirit. Michael and Winona agreed to the sequel, however, Tim became distracted with directing Batman Returns, which starred Michael arsenic the iconic caped-crusader. Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian was yet shelved wholly by 1997.
Betelgeuse awaits his summons to beryllium called into the afterlife waiting country (Photo: Everett Collection)
Plans for a antithetic sequel started up successful 2011. Warner Bros. hired Seth Grahame-Smith, who worked with Tim connected Dark Shadows and Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter, to constitute and nutrient the project. Winona adjacent gushed astir the sequel successful a 2013 interrogation with The Daily Beast. “I’m benignant of sworn to secrecy but it sounds similar it mightiness beryllium happening. It’s 27 years later,” she confirmed. “And I person to say, I emotion Lydia Deetz truthful much. She was specified a immense portion of me. I would beryllium truly funny successful what she is doing 27 years later.” However, that sequel was besides canceled.
In 2021, Seth himself spoke astir the canceled sequel. “It’s funny, erstwhile I had met with Tim astir it last, and we’re talking astir 5 years agone astatine this point, the crushed that it’s truthful hard to get going is due to the fact that truthful galore radical emotion it and due to the fact that determination are 10 cardinal ways to get that sequel incorrect and 4 ways to get it right,” helium explained to Collider in Oct. 2021. “It’s specified a precise good needle to thread that I surely similar didn’t get it there, connected the publication side. I didn’t thread the needle. There are things that were chill and immoderate absorbing ideas. I’ve surely emotionally moved connected from it and conscionable said, ‘If it happens someday, it happens.'”
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