After we learned that Jenna Ortega has landed another role in the Tim Burton universe, the first official pictures of her in Beetlejuice 2 (hilariously named Beetlejuice Beetlejuice) have since landed. PLUS, the trailer has just dropped and we are all kinds of giddy.
Though details about the follow-up film are being kept under wraps, we do know Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder as set to reprise their roles as mischievous “bio-exorcist” Beetlejuice and the goth Lydia Deetz. Jenna Ortega joins the two famed actors as Lydia Deetz’s daughter, which seems fitting given how beloved her portrayal of the sardonic Addams family member was.
Entertainment Weekly released the first look at the sequel with a series of production stills. In one image, we see the entire Deetz family looking as gloomy as we could have hoped: O'Hara as Delia, Ortega as Astrid, Ryder as Lydia, and Justin Theroux and Rory. It's giving gothic Schitt's Creek and we are so here for it. Another image shows Keaton reprising his iconic role as Beetlejuice, cast in an eerie green light.
According to Keaton, the follow-up to Burton's 1988 darkly comedic classic is set to be just as wacky and wonderful as the original. “It's the most fun I've had on set in a long time,” he told People. He also noted that the team was eager to get the sequel “right”. “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.’" This meant doing as many practical effects as possible, which Keaton said was "just enormous fun.”
Last year, we got our first glimpse of Jenna in character as the movie in on-set images shared by People. Jenna could be seen wearing a big white dress (yes, that kind of big white dress), and a matching veil with a jacket over the top, while Winona's look was under wraps as she had a puffa coat and Ugg boots on. However, we could see she's had the same spiky fringe that she rocked in the original movie. We're here for the continuity.
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Beetlejuice 2 is the sequel to the popular 1988 supernatural comedy — which starred Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder alongside Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis — and it’s slated to hit cinemas on 6 September 2024, Warner Bros. has confirmed.
A Beetlejuice sequel has been a possibility for many years, dating all the way back to 1990. The last time Tim Burton shared an update on the potential continuation was in 2016. “It’s something that I really would like to do in the right circumstances, but it’s one of those films where it has to be right,” Burton said at the time. It’s not a kind of a movie that cries out [for a sequel]… it’s something that if the elements are right—because I do love the character and Michael’s amazing as that character, so yeah we’ll see." Looks like the stars have finally aligned.
Rumours of Ortega joining the cast for the sequel first started swirling back in March and were later confirmed. American actor and filmmaker Justin Theroux has also joining the cast, though details of his role are still a mystery.
There's not long to wait.
If you thought Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton were the only two people connecting the worlds of Beetlejuice 2 and Netflix’s Wednesday, you’d be wrong. Screenwriters Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, who also worked with Burton on Wednesday as co-creators, writers, and executive producers, have been tapped to pen the Beetlejuice 2 screenplay. (That, and, you know, the fact that season one of Wednesday already featured an easter egg in honour of Beetlejuice.)
Beetlejuice 2 is set to hit UK cinemas on September 6, 2024. You can watch the trailer below:
Article originally appeared in Teen Vogue.
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