The sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic Beetlejuice is sort of right here.
On Thursday, Warner Bros. Photos shared the primary teaser trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the 36-years-in-the-making sequel of the long-lasting Tim Burton film, due on Sept. 4.
The minute-long teaser sees Jenna Ortega driving her bike to highschool and later attending a funeral alongside Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, who reprise their roles as Lydia and Delia Deetz.
The trailer fast-forwards to Ortega going into an attic to discover a mannequin of the city earlier than the Afterlife is opened to see Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice. And, after all, his first phrases to Lydia after 36 years are: “The juice is free.”
“After an sudden household tragedy, three generations of the Deetz household return house to Winter River. Nonetheless haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned the other way up when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious mannequin of the city within the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is by chance opened,” reads a logline of the movie. “With hassle brewing in each realms, it’s solely a matter of time till somebody says Beetlejuice’s identify 3 times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very personal model of mayhem.”
The movie can also be set to star Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, and Willem Dafoe.
In a latest interview with Folks, Keaton teased the Beetlejuice sequel, calling the expertise “essentially the most enjoyable I’ve had on set in a very long time.”
“On one hand, you’d go, ‘Nicely, after all it’s essentially the most enjoyable. It appears like enjoyable,’” Keaton stated. “As you already know, it doesn’t at all times work like that.”
The actor defined that he and Burton had thought of a sequel for years. “We thought, ‘You bought to get this proper. In any other case, simply don’t do it. Let’s simply go on with our lives and do different issues,’” Keaton stated. “So I used to be hesitant and cautious, and he was in all probability equally as hesitant and cautious over all these years. As soon as we bought there, I stated, ‘Okay, let’s simply go for it. Let’s simply see if we are able to do it, if we are able to pull this off.’”
One of many fundamental inventive selections, in response to Keaton, was to not depend on CGI to create the fantastical world and creatures of the unique, since they most popular to make it “really feel handmade.” “It’s essentially the most thrilling factor,” he stated. “Once you get to try this once more after years of standing in entrance of a large display, pretending any person’s throughout the way in which from you, that is simply monumental enjoyable.”
