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Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega have been confirmed as the celebs of the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel.
Beetlejuice 2 will hit theaters on September 6, 2024, Warner Bros. introduced. In line with a Selection report revealed on Tuesday, Might 9. Keaton, 71, and Winona Ryder can be reprising their roles as Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz, respectively. Ortega, 20, has signed on to play Ryder’s daughter whereas Justin Theroux joined the forged in a yet-to-be-revealed function.
In line with the outlet, Brad Pitt’s manufacturing firm, Plan B, will produce the undertaking, which was penned by Mike Vukadinovich. The film is scheduled to start manufacturing in London on Wednesday, Might 10.
Information of the follow-up movie comes 35 years after the enduring Tim Burton movie’s preliminary launch. The unique flick additionally starred Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones and Catherine O’Hara. The comedy-horror film follows the lives of a lately deceased couple — performed by Davis, 67, and Baldwin, 65 — as they navigate the afterlife when a brand new household strikes into their previous residence. The ghosts are initially irritated with Jones and O’Hara’s characters’ antics so that they enlist the assistance of Keaton’s Beetlejuice to hang-out them and spook them out of the home.
Michael Keaton in ‘Beetlejuice’ Geffen/Warner Bros/Kobal/Shutterstock
The cult basic earned $80 million on the field workplace and has turn out to be a popular culture staple, happening to encourage an animated sequence and a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Talks of a sequel had been within the works however didn’t come to fruition till now.
In January 2015, Ryder, 51, revealed she heard the following installment was “going to occur” in some unspecified time in the future.
“I first heard about it a couple of years in the past once I was in Toronto doing press for The Iceman,” the Stranger Issues star recalled throughout an look for HuffPost Reside on the time. “The man interviewing me was like… ‘Beetlejuice 2!’ and I used to be like ‘What?’”
She continued: “So far as I do know, it’s going to occur.”
Ortega, for her half, has turn out to be well-known as a spooky starlet. Along with starring as Tara Carpenter in Scream 5 and 6, she’s gained important approval for her function because the titular character in Netflix’s Wednesday sequence. As she took on the mantle of Wednesday Addams, Ortega gushed to The Hollywood Reporter about her working alongside Burton on the undertaking.
“It’s been fairly an insane expertise,” she recalled in January 2022. “I’ve been fortunate sufficient to get the chance to work with an iconic director who simply so occurs to be one of many sweetest administrators I’ve labored with, and in addition essentially the most detail-oriented.”
