BEETLEJUICE 2 Trailer 2 (2024) Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci

BEETLEJUICE 2 Trailer 2 (2024) Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci

BEETLEJUICE 2 Trailer 2 (2024) Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, Tim Burton, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
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Warner Bros. has released a new trailer for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the follow-up to the 1988 comedy-horror classic. Michael Keaton returns as the foul-mouthed, shape-shifting ghoul joined by new cast members Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux. Also reprising their roles from the original film are Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” sees the Deetz clan move back into their Winter River home after a sudden death in the family. When Lydia’s (Ryder) rebellious teen daughter Astrid (Ortega) discovers a portal to the afterlife hidden in the basement, the name of the mischievous spirit Beetlejuice is inevitably repeated three times, inviting him to wreak havoc in the Deetz family home once again.

“The living, the dead… can they coexist? That’s what we’re here to find out,” Ryder’s Lydia says in the trailer.

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“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is the latest horror title to star scream queen Ortega, who has made a name for herself as a genre staple. She previously starred in the Netflix original series “Wednesday” as the titular Addams’ family member as well as Ti West’s “X” and two installments of the rebooted “Scream” franchise. However, it was recently announced that Ortega would not return for “Scream 7” due to a scheduling conflict with “Wednesday” Season 2.

Tim Burton returns to produce and direct the “Beetlejuice” sequel from a script by “Wednesday” screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Executive producers include Brad Pitt, David Katzenberg, Laurence Senelick, Gough, Millar, Sara Desmond, Katterli Frauenfelder and Andrew Lary. Tommy Harper, Dede Gardner and Jeremy Kleiner serve as producers. Danny Elfman is set to compose the music for the film.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” will haunt theaters starting Sept. 6. Watch the trailer below.

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Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci reunite in Beetlejuice 2 after previously starring together in Bram Stoker's Dracula in 1992.
The dynamic between Ryder and Bellucci's characters in Beetlejuice 2 mirrors their roles in Dracula in connection to the movies' main villains.
With Tim Burton directing, the sequel also includes familiar faces like Michael Keaton, Catherine O'Hara, and new talents like Jenna Ortega.
The cast of Beetlejuice 2 creates a reunion for a 1992 horror movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola, with the actors’ roles bearing curious similarities in both franchises. With Tim Burton back in the director’s chair, Beetlejuice 2’s cast sees plenty of familiar faces playing the living and dead characters in the upcoming sequel to his 1988 film Beetlejuice. While a few original cast members are confirmed to return, including Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, and Catherine O’Hara, most of the actors are new to the world of Beetlejuice – but some have previously worked with Burton.

Among the new figures joining Beetlejuice 2’s story are Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, and Danny DeVito. Dafoe and Bellucci are making their Tim Burton movie debut, but the two actors bring plenty of experience in the horror genre to their roles as an afterlife police officer and Beetlejuice’s ex-wife in the 2024 film. Furthermore, many of the new Beetlejuice 2 cast members have previously worked with the returning actors in other movies beforehand, such as Winona Ryder and Monica Bellucci having collaborated on a massively successful horror release from the 1990s.

Beetlejuice 2's Winona Ryder & Monica Bellucci Were Both In Bram Stoker's Dracula From 1992
Beetlejuice 2 is Ryder & Bellucci's second horror movie together
Before working together in Beetlejuice 2, Lydia Deetz actress Winona Ryder and Delores actress Monica Bellucci both appeared in the 1992 film Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Bram Stoker’s Dracula saw Ryder – who had already been making waves in the horror genre through Beetlejuice and Edward Scissorhands – star as Mina Harker, while Bellucci portrayed one of Dracula’s Brides. The 1992 adaptation of the classic vampire novel was a campy hit for Coppola, earning approximately $216 million at the box office while currently holding a “Certified Fresh” 74% score from critics on Rotten Tomatoes.

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Now, about 32 years later, Ryder and Bellucci are reuniting in another highly anticipated horror film on Beetlejuice 2. Bram Stoker’s Dracula actually isn’t the last time that the two actors have worked together, however. They also both appeared in the 2009 movie The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, which curiously also brought them back together with their Dracula co-star Keanu Reeves. If Reeves happens to make a surprise appearance in Beetlejuice 2, then he, Ryder, and Bellucci would have a curious array of projects together across three decades of films.

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Winona Ryder Character

Monica Bellucci Character

Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)

Mina Harker

Dracula's Bride

The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)

Sandra Dulles

Gigi Lee

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)

Lydia Deetz

Delores

Ryder & Bellucci's Beetlejuice 2 Roles Continue An Odd Dynamic From Their Dracula Movie
Ryder & Bellucci's connections to the villains are similar in Dracula & Beetlejuice
Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
While Ryder and Bellucci are back in another horror movie together for a completely different franchise, their character dynamics are still quite similar. Much like in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Ryder’s Beetlejuice 2 character is the mortal woman whom the horror movie’s supernatural and deceased villain is obsessed with. Likewise, both Bellucci’s Beetlejuice 2 character and Dracula figure are already the dead wife of the main villain. Whether Winona Ryder’s character will ultimately decapitate Beetlejuice in Beetlejuice 2 as her character did to Dracula remains to be seen, however.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will premiere in theaters on September 6, 2024.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror-comedy that involved ghosts trying to scare off new homebuyers from taking their house. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions, now joined by Jenna Ortega in a new role.

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Tim Burton
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September 6, 2024
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Michael Keaton , Jenna Ortega , Winona Ryder , Monica Bellucci , Willem Dafoe , Justin Theroux , Catherine O'Hara

Beetlejuice is ready to haunt a new generation.

For sequel film “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” the titular undead figure played by Michael Keaton continues to stalk his favorite family, led by matriarch Catherine O’Hara, daughter Winona Ryder, and now, granddaughter Jenna Ortega. The “Wednesday” breakout star continues her collaborations with “Beetlejuice” director Tim Burton, who also helms the “Addams Family” spinoff Netflix series.

Burton directs “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” from a script written by Seth Grahame-Smith, David Katzenberg, Michael McDowel, Mike Vukadinovich, and Larry Wilson. In addition to Ortega, new franchise cast members include characters played by Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux, and Willem Dafoe, who teased his role is that of a dead B-movie action star turned detective in the afterlife.

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The Warner Bros. release comes more than 40 years after the original 1988 horror-comedy classic. Lead star Keaton teased that “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” is a “beautiful” film due to its practical effects to People magazine.

“It’s the most fun I’ve had on set in a long time. On one hand, you’d go, ‘Well, of course it’s the most fun. It looks like fun.’ As you know, it doesn’t always work like that,” Keaton said. “The one thing that he and I decided on early, early, early on from the beginning, if we ever did it again, I was totally not interested in doing something where there was too much technology. It had to feel handmade. It’s the most exciting thing. When you get to do that again after years of standing in front of a giant screen, pretending somebody’s across the way from you, this is just enormous fun.”

However, Keaton admitted that both he and Burton were “hesitant and cautious” about revisiting the film.

“We thought, ‘You got to get this right. Otherwise, just don’t do it. Let’s just go on with our lives and do other things,’” Keaton said. “So I was hesitant and cautious, and he was probably equally as hesitant and cautious over all these years. Once we got there, I said, ‘OK, let’s just go for it. Let’s just see if we can do it, if we can pull this off.’”

Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment produces the sequel along with KatzSmith Productions and Tim Burton Productions.

“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” premieres September 6 in theaters. Check out the trailer below.

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It’s showtime – the long-awaited sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice is about to land on screens imminently, and the first trailers are as eerie and eccentric (and strange and unusual) as we could’ve hoped for. Released on 21 March, the first teaser opens with a shot of franchise newcomer Jenna Ortega cycling swiftly past Miss Shannon’s School for Girls to the tune of – what else? – a children’s choir singing “Day-O”. Cue glimpses of Ortega standing beside returning favourites Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara; and the Wednesday star entering the attic and uncovering the miniature model of Winter River. It soon splits open and, to Ryder’s horror, Michael Keaton’s scraggly-haired, deathly pale, striped-suit-wearing Beetlejuice emerges from within it. “The juice is loose,” he grins.

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The first official trailer, meanwhile, offers even more: jump scares, fantastical costumes and deranged dance numbers.

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Titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the forthcoming Tim Burton-directed release is poised to hit cinemas on 6 September 2024. The log line reads: “After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.”

Alongside Keaton, O’Hara and Ryder are, of course, reprising their original roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz, while Ortega takes the part of the latter’s willful offspring. They’ll be joined by Monica Bellucci – as Beetlejuice’s wife, no less – and Willem Dafoe as a “police officer in the afterlife and former B-movie action star”, as well as Justin Theroux, Game of Thrones’s Burn Gorman, and House of the Dragon’s Arthur Conti. Meanwhile, the screenplay comes courtesy of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the creators of Wednesday.

It’s taken an age to get the gang back together – the follow-up film has long been gestating, and after production finally began, it was paused over the summer of 2023 as a result of the SAG-AFTRA strike. However, only two additional days of filming remained, meaning it could wrap quickly after work resumed.

And, by all accounts, it should be worth the wait: “I really enjoyed it,” Burton told The Independent last autumn, of making the film. “I tried to strip everything and go back to the basics of working with good people and actors and puppets. It was kind of like going back to why I liked making movies.”

Keaton echoed this in an interview with People magazine, saying, “The one thing that [Tim] and I decided on early on [was that] if we ever did it again, I was totally not interested in doing something where there was too much technology. It had to feel handmade. It’s the most exciting thing. When you get to do that again after years of standing in front of a giant screen, pretending somebody’s across the way from you, this is just enormous fun… the most fun I’ve had on set in a long time.” It is also, he revealed, surprisingly emotional. In an interview on The Jess Cagle Show, he added: “The [original] was so fun and exciting visually. [The sequel is] all that but really beautiful and interestingly emotional here and there. I wasn’t ready for that.”

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And as for Ortega? “She’s weird, but in a different way [from her mother] and not in the way you’d assume, I would say,” the actor said of Astrid, to Vanity Fair. “The relationship between Lydia and my character is very important. And it’s also really strange because it’s a lot of catching up and putting the pieces together of what’s gone on in Lydia’s life since, which is nice, I think, for anybody who loves the character and is excited to see her again. I wouldn’t say [Astrid’s] bright and sunny at all. She doesn’t go to the opposite end of the spectrum [as Lydia], but any kid who becomes a teenager wants to be removed from their parents. I think they instantly just fight whatever it is that their parent loves. I’m not wearing pink and a cheerleader, but I am a little bit against my mom’s history or past. We butt heads quite a bit. For me, Lydia is the coolest ever. So then to play her daughter and also have to be like, “Mom…,” and roll your eyes was definitely more challenging for me as an actor, but super fun to play.”

It’s also likely, given the title of the new film and the Beetlejuice universe’s rule of three, that a third instalment, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, will be on its way soon after. And why not? 36 years later, he’s still the ghost with the most.

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The Juice is loose!

The official trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has arrived and this time around, three generations of Deetzes have to deal with the trouble-making spirit that is Beetlejuice.

On Thursday, Warner Bros. dropped a new trailer showing Michael Keaton's return to one of his most iconic roles to date alongside OG cast members Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara in their roles as Lydia and Delia Deetz.

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"After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River," reads the movie's press release. "Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened. With trouble brewing in both realms, it's only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice's name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem."

Several newcomers join the Tim Burton-directed franchise, including Jenna Ortega as Lydia's daughter, Astrid, as well as Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux.

Willem Dafoe in 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' - Warner Bros.
The new trailer gives fans a first look at Dafoe's Wolf Jackson, a B-list movie actor who died and became a cop in the Afterlife; Bellucci's Delores, Beetlejuice's zombified but fabulous wife; and more familiar creatures, like the stop-motion-animated sandworm.

Monica Bellucci in 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' - Warner Bros.
"The living, the dead. Can they co-exist? That's what we're here to find out," Lydia says.

Fans have been patiently waiting for a proper look at the sequel to the 1988 cult film since the teaser trailer was dropped in March, giving the world a first look at Keaton back in action and hinting at what's to come.

In March, ET spoke with Keaton, who dished about making his highly anticipated return.

"It took a while to get there," he said. "I didn't really think we were gonna do it and didn't want to do it, various times [in the] last few years, but it was more fun than the other one."

Despite the initial apprehension, Keaton said that the "tremendous cast" made the experience even better.

"[Tim] was really, really great -- back in his comfort zone," he added. "I could tell he was having fun. Which is really contagious, when you're around that."

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits theaters on Sept. 6.
After 36 years, Beetlejuice has finally come back to haunt you.

Warner Bros. has released the trailer for Tim Burton’s follow-up to his 1988 cult classic horror-comedy “Beetlejuice,” with Michael Keaton reprising his role as the ghoulish title character. The sequel, officially titled “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice,” is set for release on Sept. 6.

In addition to Keaton, original “Beetlejuice” Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara are back as Lydia and Delia Deetz, respectively. Jenna Ortega rounds out the family as newcomer Astrid Deetz. Monica Bellucci plays Beetlejuice’s wife and Willem DeFoe stars as a “police officer in the afterlife” and former “B movie action star,” whose acting skills help him as an afterlife detective. Justin Theroux also joins the sequel in a new role.

The original “Beetlejuice” followed a deceased couple trying to haunt the Deetz family out of their new home with the help of the eccentric ghost Beetlejuice. Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis starred as the Maitlands while Jeffrey Jones, O’Hara and Ryder made up the Deetz family. The movie developed a cult following after its release and later spawned a hit musical adaptation on Broadway.

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Burton announced on social media last November that he had finished filming the “Beetlejuice” sequel after a months-long delay due to the SAG-AFTRA strike. In September, he revealed to The Independent that he only had “a day and a half” of filming remaining prior to the shutdown.

“I feel grateful we got what we got,” Burton said at the time. “Literally, it was a day and a half. We know what we have to do. It is 99 percent done.”

Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, creators of the Ortega-starring Netflix series “Wednesday,” penned the script for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.”

Watch the trailer below.

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