Michael Keaton, Jenna Ortega to Star in ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice! Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega have been confirmed as the celebrities of the upcoming Beetlejuice sequel.

Beetlejuice 2 will hit theaters on September 6, 2024, Warner Bros. introduced. According to a Variety report revealed on Tuesday, May 9. Keaton, 71, and Winona Ryder shall 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 solid in a yet-to-be-revealed position.

According to the outlet, Brad Pitt’s manufacturing firm, Plan B, will produce the mission, which was penned by Mike Vukadinovich. The film is scheduled to start manufacturing in London on Wednesday, May 10.

News of the follow-up movie comes 35 years after the long-lasting Tim Burton movie’s preliminary launch. The authentic flick additionally starred Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones and Catherine O’Hara. The comedy-horror film follows the lives of a not too long ago deceased couple — performed by Davis, 67, and Baldwin, 65 — as they navigate the afterlife when a brand new household strikes into their outdated dwelling. 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.

The cult traditional earned $80 million on the field workplace and has turn out to be a popular culture staple, happening to encourage an animated collection and a Tony-nominated Broadway musical. Talks of a sequel had been in the works however didn’t come to fruition till now.

In January 2015, Ryder, 51, revealed she heard the subsequent installment was “going to happen” in some unspecified time in the future.

“I first heard about it a few years ago when I was in Toronto doing press for The Iceman,” the Stranger Things star recalled throughout an look for HuffPost Live on the time. “The guy interviewing me was like… ‘Beetlejuice 2!’ and I was like ‘What?’”

She continued: “As far as I know, it’s going to happen.”

Ortega, for her half, has turn out to be well-known as a spooky starlet. In addition to starring as Tara Carpenter in Scream 5 and 6, she’s gained essential popularity of her position because the titular character in Netflix’s Wednesday collection. As she took on the mantle of Wednesday Addams, Ortega gushed to The Hollywood Reporter about her working alongside Burton on the mission.

“It’s been quite an insane experience,” she recalled in January 2022. “I’ve been lucky enough to get the opportunity to work with an iconic director who just so happens to be one of the sweetest directors I’ve worked with, and also the most detail-oriented.”