>After reprising Batman in last year's The Flash, Michael Keaton returns to another iconic role in Entertainment Weekly's exclusive first look at Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to director Tim Burton's cult hit.
>Winona Ryder and Catherine O'Hara also reprise their roles as Lydia and Delia Deetz, respectively, while Burton's Wednesday star Jenna Ortega plays Lydia's daughter Astrid, and The Leftovers star Justin Theroux plays Rory. Further details on Rory remain under wraps for now — unlike the titular "bio-exorcist."
>Burton describes getting Keaton back in the classic costume and makeup as "a weird out-of-body experience."
>"He just got back into it," the filmmaker behind 1989's Batman (also starring Keaton) recalls. "It was kind of scary for somebody who was maybe not that overly interested in doing it. It was such a beautiful thing for me to see all the cast, but he, sort of like demon possession, just went right back into it."
>Burton says he and Keaton have talked about a sequel on and off over the years. "Unless it felt right, he had no burning desire to do it," the director recalls. "I think we all felt the same way. It only made sense if it had an emotional hook."
>Many concepts were floated around, some dating all the way back to the '80s, including a treatment set in Hawaii. "We talked about lots of different things," Burton says. "That was early on when we were going, Beetlejuice and the Haunted Mansion, Beetlejuice Goes West, whatever. Lots of things came up."
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>What they needed, however, was time. His actors, including Ryder and O'Hara, had all moved on to other projects after the original came out, and "nobody," Burton notes, "was really pushing for it." The filmmaker also admits he didn't initially (and still doesn't to some degree) understand the success of the first film, so he wasn't motivated to move forward with an idea that didn't excite him.
>The hook he was looking for, as it turns out, revolves around Ryder's Lydia and bringing together three generations of Deetz women, including O'Hara's Delia and Ortega's Astrid. "I so identified with the Lydia character, but then you get to all these years later, and you take your own journey, going from cool teenager to lame adult, back and forth again," he explains. "That made it emotional, gave it a foundation. So that was the thing that really truly got me into it."
>Other details on the film itself are being kept secret for now, other than the presence of Monica Bellucci (Spectre), Arthur Conti (House of the Dragon), and Willem Dafoe (Poor Things) among the cast. (Dafoe previously disclosed his role as a B-movie action star who died and became a police officer in the Afterlife.) Burton feels "a bit jinx-y" about revealing such things, given that he's still shaping the movie in the editing phase. But he does confirm he'll be using stop-motion animation to bring a lot of the classic Beetlejuice effects to the screen. "It needed a back-to-basics, handmade quality," he says. "It reenergized why I love making movies."
>And what about that title? Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. "It's been, what? Thirty-five years. So it didn't feel like Beetlejuice 2 to me," Burton says. "It didn't feel like that kind of a movie. The other one I thought of, because one of my favorite Dracula movies is Dracula A.D. 1972, was Beetlejuice 2024 A.D. But this was a nice simple one."
>But he does confirm he'll be using stop-motion animation to bring a lot of the classic Beetlejuice effects to the screen. "It needed a back-to-basics, handmade quality," he says. "It reenergized why I love making movies."
based
If something can even remotely reignite a spark of the old pre-2000s Burton it would be welcome. It sucks seeing him making generic lifeless CG blockbuster fare in the past 15-20 years
huh. that is a pleasant surprise.
>then you get to all these years later, and you take your own journey, going from cool teenager to lame adult, back and forth again
>"It needed a back-to-basics, handmade quality," he says. "It reenergized why I love making movies."
I can actually see the hook there for him, interesting.
>Justin Theroux
confirmed kino
i cant tell if he is supposed to be new otho or stepdad, maybe both
Isn't he supposed to be Lydia's agent / fiance? (aka a homoseggual using a beard)
Noticed that in the set pictures too, very puffy face on Ortega, wonder what caused that during filming.
It's coke bloat
That's not what that looks like.
>Already walled
lol
She was puffed up from some medication
>Already walled
No shit. That's what chain smoking will do to ya!
I'll still take her
Where’s Lydia’s dad?
He’s a pedophile
>Jeffrey Jones is a pedophile
So is Danny Elfman but I'll bet he still got hired onto this.
I didn't realize Jeffrey Jones had been outed prior to getting the role on Deadwood. I watched that series for the first time recently and just assumed it must have been before he got busted. Then I watched the movie they released a few years back and was shocked that he was in it. It's very strange how he exists in a state on cancelled and also not cancelled.
His crime was kind of bullshit to be honest. He photographed a 17 year old that lied about his age. To compare him to some dude who goes around raping 10 year olds isn't really fair.
But he's got a real pedo-y face. Even if he wasn't busted, I would still have my doubts just looking at the man.
Its weird so weird the guy was convicted in early 2000 and continued acting long after that, only for his prior convictions being an issue now.
I mean, Victor Salva literally filmed himself blowing a 12 year old, got caught, and was still welcomed back to Hollywood with open arms after a brief Mea Culpa period. The thing about Hollywood, and especially pre-00s Hollywood, is that half of them were doing the same shit and worse and people know it. If Jeffrey Jones knows that you also diddled a bunch of kid actors back in the 80s but never got caught and he asks you for a job, are you going to turn him down?
David Milch was himself a survivor of sexual abuse and he understood Jones's predicament
>The other one I thought of, because one of my favorite Dracula movies is Dracula A.D. 1972, was Beetlejuice 2024 A.D.
Based. That's a groovy movie.
He looks a little freakier than before and Jenna looks fine
>bringing together three generations of Deetz women
But Delia is Lydia's stepmom? She's not a Deetz.
If they're at Charles' funeral...was he still living in the ghost house?
Suicide, he will be working as a civil servant now
I know I keep saying this but Jenna Ortega is literally me. From skin color, headshape, and the jowels. I have been cursed with jowels like hers my entire life, it's good to see an actress actually have it. also a petite latina.
Looks kino
Never understood why boomers loved this little undead israelite so much
Michael Keaton is an enjoyable actor and Winona was cute
satanic brainwashing
Decades later sequels are hard. But they seem fairly invested in it, for once.
It's not a sequel. It's the same movie again.
>Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Pretty clever name for a sequel tbqh
Lydia Deetz was my first crush so I might actually watch this even though I fricking despise decades later sequels about as much as remakes.
>Decades later rehash
no thanks
>Beetlejuice Goes West
That would have been better than a sequel filmed more than 3 decades later.
Somewhere out there exists a screenplay titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian
Leave Beetlejuice to me.
Hmm someone is missing from the cast.... The father...hmmm I wonder why.
Yeah, we want Jeffrey Jones back!
He's still on the hunt to catch Ferris playing hooky and when he catches him he'll have his ass
They're at his funeral. He died
Which would, in no way preclude him from being in this movie about the afterlife.
Kevin Smith is crying right now.
Oh, Ryder's back?
So there will be a third film to complete to phrase right?
Cosplay Beetlejuice
All I'm reading here is a bunch of PR nonsense.
>Nobody wanted to do it, not even me
>everyone moved on
>it had to feel right
>The hook he was looking for, as it turns out, revolves around Ryder's Lydia and bringing together three generations of Deetz women
Sounds like soulless trash nobody wants to do but everyone got offered a big enough paycheck to do it and make sure it involved "muh stronk women" themes because that has been totally working.
I'm gonna assume 50-60% is going to be direct references or even dialogue from the original movie, possibly even a Baldwin, or most likely Geena Davis cameo(to add another string woman character), while the new stuff is all trash.
This but as you can see it works even on anons itt
The original movie was part of the first wave of heckin' strong women becoming a theme in case you forgot.
>original movie was part of the first wave of heckin' strong women becoming a theme
>Geena Davis - Homemaker and housewife
>O'hara - Failed artist called out for always being a flake
>Ryder - Suicidal proto-emo
The only strong woman was the case worker Juno and she was just fed up with dealing with the deads bullshit.
I see you forgot how big Barbara Maitland's role is and how much trouble she gave Beetleguise; more than Adam did. Delia wears the pants in the family, and Lydia is the secondary protagonist of the whole movie.
You're really reaching for it. Adam and Barbara both did everything they could possibly do with the situations they were put in. Tiny Adam drove a tiny truck into his foot because thats what was available to him.
If Delia wore the pants why did they move to a small town in the middle of fricking nowhere? Because it was Charles' decision to move away from the city and to make her happy he let her remodel. Charles was a real estate developer who wanted an escape but couldn't help but see money making opportunities wherever he went.
Lydia was a sad sack who just wanted to be treated like a normal kid but was mostly ignored by her self-centered parents who eventually chilled out and opened up after meeting and getting to know the Maitlands.
Everyone was a good character with motivations and archs, there was no agenda the movie pushed.
To add on to this, every character has actual growth. Charles actually does chill-out and learn to separate life and work, Delia finds her inspiration and success, Lydia becomes a well adjusted normal teenage girl and the Maitlands do end up being parents.
At a certain point you're just trying to be offended as much as possible.
I'm not trying to be offended, that other moron is ignoring the plot
>that other moron is ignoring the plot
I don't think you know what a plot is. Our arguments have nothing to do with the plot.
>The original movie was part of the first wave of heckin' strong women
the movie is from the 80s not the 1940s
This is the only role in history where being 36 years older helps sell the look.
Who fricked Lydia?
MEEEEEEEEEE
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
One little touch that I liked in the original was how during the dinner scene Otho mentions how in the afterlife people who commit suicide end up working as civil servants which makes you re-assess all of the people working at the afterlife office.
The girl who cut her wrists.
The guy who got run over by a truck, who probably jumped in front of it.
The guy swinging through the office with a noose around his neck.
But especially Juno whose throat is cut...
!!!FACT!!!
I thought the implication for Juno was she died from smoking, the cut throat was probably from a last ditch operation to remove throat cancer, at least thats how I always interpreted it
Possible. They specifically say those who kill themselves become civil servants in the afterlife
Maybe smoking (which essentially is killing yourself) is considered killing yourself in the afterlife
If the topic comes up I genuinely say to people that I'd never commit suicide because I don't want to be a civil servant in the afterlife. Almost no-one gets it's from Beetlejuice.
Also you forget that the receptionist with her wrists cut her wrists says it. It wasn't just Otto.
One little touch that I liked in the original was how Lydia mentions that there are ghosts living in the attic to her Parents. The parents don't believe her but later we find out that she was telling the truth and that there really were ghosts living in the attic, two of them.
The woman who crashed in the Winter River Bridge because of a dog.
The man who crashed in the Winter River Bridge because of a dog.
And another ghost who was there living in the model where he caught a fly and went to a prostitute brothel.
!!!FACT!!!
>#justcrazydetailsi'venoticed that no one else has
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According to that first image, ghosts can get old.
B-but how?!!
Looks like Beetlejuice is in the attic of the original house in that picture
Wonder how they’re going to explain Charles departure…
Dead
But where's his ghost then?
In HELL
That is to say, haunting a small bakery in Hell, Box Butte County, Nebraska.
>He come to me with money in his hand. He offered me, I didn't ask him
>Following leads in an investigation of Paul Reubens, Jones was arrested in 2002 for possession of child pornography and soliciting a 14-year-old boy to produce sexually explicit images between September 2000 to May 2001.[39][40][41] Jones photographed the child, and paid him to pose nude on multiple occasions wearing a cowboy hat, with stuffed animals, and dressed as a Native American.[42] Jones surrendered himself and was released on bond prior to arraignment.[43] Jones pleaded not guilty to the possession charge[44] and no contest to a charge of soliciting a minor. The victim initiated a separate civil action against Jones seeking damages and compensation.[45] The misdemeanor charge of possession of child pornography was dropped following the no contest plea.[46] His attorney emphasized that there was no allegation of improper physical contact. His punishment was five years' probation, counseling, and the requirement to register as a sex offender.[47][48] As of 2021, Jones was listed on the California Department of Justice national sex offender database
hahaha
>pose nude on multiple occasions wearing a cowboy hat, with stuffed animals, and dressed as a Native American.
I love that this is a relevant part of the case. It's so goofy and lame
>September 2000 to May 2001.[39][40][41] Jones photographed the child, and paid him to pose nude on multiple occasions wearing a cowboy hat, with stuffed animals, and dressed as a Native American, and as an astronaut, and with a fake mustache, and as Batman, and wearing a backwards business suit, and as a kitty cat, and as Pepe the Frog, and as Jay Leno, and as a fireman with a stuffed dalmatian, and wearing a Pope hat, and once he made him dress like an alligator and pop out of several different holes while Jones attempted to bop him on the snout with a little mallet and when he got hit he had to go "NOW I'M ANGRY" and move faster through the various holes. It was to simulate a children's arcade game that was popular at the time.
Too bad it's not being shot on film.
Why is he doing Blompf hands?
That pic. Michael Keaton looks amazing. Can't wait to see him in the makeup.
No Jefferey Jones, Not watching.
uuuuuh
I'm guessing Beetle is a good guy this time around
He has to be a good guy to appeal to the zoomers who only know him through the gay musical version.
Beetlejuice should be pissed off at these yuppies. In the original his only goal is to torment the living - even if it means killing them but ultimately he wants out of the dead world
In the cartoon in the 90s he was a "good" guy
Will we see sandworms
Michael Keaton will deliver, of that I am sure.
But Burton has only made garbage, I mean actual living heaping piles of garbage masquerading as movies.
And I say this as Burton fanboy. I absolutely adore his early works but nope, he fell. Boy has FALLEN.
Why are Burton fanboys willing to accept that their idol fell long ago but not Lucas fanboys?
this meme must end.
Sweeney Todd is probably in his 2 or 3 best films.
Big Eyes is also excellent.
Miss Peregrine was fun and didn't feel like CGIshit at all.
That's two films in 20 years.
Sweeney todd was 20 years ago bro. And it was a good movie held back by that awful cgi. Big fish was his last actually good movie.
>Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
So this movie is just filler until we see him in Bettlejuice Bettlejuice Bettlejuice?
Ed Wood 2 when?
How frick does he not get a boner
that's his daughter...
true, he probably has lapdances from her so often that he's immune to it by now
Beeblebuice
it's rumored that a former character is said to have died off camera due to a shark accident in some of the dialogue
maybe this is what happens to Charles or they address where Otho is
Burton's visuals are trippy so I'm always down
Seeing this picture is a surreal experience for me. Fellow elderlygays will know that they've been threatening to do this movie for 35 years now. Like the Rocky Horror Picture Show remake that was in perpetual development and eventually became a low effort live show on Fox, there have been articles talking about Beetlejuice 2 for as long as I have been alive. Even when they greenlit it a while back, I still had a "I'll believe it when I fricking see it" mentality. This is the first time it actually feels real. It's probably going to be bad, but it's an abstract feeling to see that it actually exists.
maybe it'll be good bro, keep your dreams true
Maybe. No matter what happens it will be fun to see Keaton reprise the role. I know he's wanted another bite at the apple since the original. And between the cartoon and the musical, it's got to be irritating to see other people get to play in a sandbox you created when he only got 15 minutes of total screentime in a movie called fricking "Beetlejuice".
>Justin Theroux
I'm in
Big Fish was his last good movie
Sweeney Todd actually
Are Jenna and Winona going to do the calypso dance this time?
Day O
Keaton is one of the few actors I like to watch act so I hope this isn't too awful
I love how they parade her around like a e-girl and nobody says a thing. So much for #MeToo
imagine if she crammed about four hundred live slugs into her rectum and filled up the remaining space with sour cream.
would you sit under her with your mouth wide open, knowing you had to chew and swallow everything she had for you, or would you just let it slip?
He looks like my dad when he's fricking WASTED.