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Beetlejuice is back!
The trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s award-winning Beetlejuice, arrived on Thursday (May 23).
Michael Keaton returns to his iconic role as Beetlejuice alongside Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz and Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz, with new cast members Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter, Astrid, and Willem Dafoe.
Here’s a synopsis: “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.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be released only in theaters and IMAX on September 6 nationwide, and internationally beginning September 4.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Micheal Keaton recently told Empire magazine that watching his iconic character Beetlejuice go mainstream over the years through various merchandising has been “fucking weird.” In order to reprise the role in Tim Burton’s upcoming sequel, Keaton had to actively block out what the character’s popularity has turned him into over the years and return to the reasons why he accepted the role in the first place. “There’s been so much merchandising of it, I had to drop back to where it started,” Keaton explained. “I had to go, ‘What was my unusual imagination even thinking about when I was developing it in the first place?’ As opposed to seeing a coffee mug or a golf club cover [featuring Betelgeuse’s face].” “That was fucking weird,” Keaton added about the character’s popularity.
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Michael Keaton has admitted that seeing his character from Beetlejuice being merchandised was “fucking weird”.The actor is due to return as the character Betelgeuse in upcoming sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, having originated the role in the 1988 Tim Burton classic.Speaking in a new interview about getting back into character, especially given his wider pop cultural recognition since the first film was released, Keaton explained that he went back to basics.“There’s been so much merchandising of it, I had to drop back to where it started,” he told Empire.“I had to go, ‘What was my unusual imagination even thinking about when I was developing it in the first place?’ As opposed to seeing a coffee mug or a golf-club cover [adorned with Betelgeuse’s face].”He elaborated: “That was fucking weird. To be honest with you – I’m being very frank – it was off-putting, to look and go, ‘I don’t want to look like all these little things, fuck that – what was the thing that started this?’”Teasing the sequel further, Keaton said of the film: “I love it.
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Beetlejuice is back, baby!
When you think of classic horror comedies, you definitely think of the 1980s, the decade where the genre was mostly born; you have “Ghostbusters,” “Gremlins,” “Critters,” and of course “Beetlejuice” by Tim Burton, arguably one of the masters of all things macabre and comedic and a genre unto himself. And while it took Burton almost four decades to make a sequel to his Michael Keaton-starring classic—about a malicious spirit (Beetlejuice) hired to drive out an unbearable family that has moved into the home of a recently deceased couple— he’s finally returning with “Beetlejuice 2,” aka “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” in the fall.
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