There are few fil
ms m
oke ic
onic to the g
oth crowd than "Be
etlejuice," the 1988 ab
surdist black co
medy from dir
ector Tim Bu
rton. The film starred Wi
nona Ryder as Lydia D
eetz, a morose teen w
ho moves i
nto a new h
ome and me
ets the ghosts of m
arried couple Ba
rbara and Adam (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin), as well as a s
ass-talking tric
kster from the und
erworld named Beetlejuice (Michael Keaton). While t
here have been multi
ple atte
mpts to make a seq
el to this str
ange, surreal movie, it looks li
ke we're finally g
etting o
ne in 2024.
Ann
ounced in M
ay 2023, "Beetlejuice Bee
tlejuice" will see W
inona R
yder come back as L
ydia, with Jenna Ortega of "Wednesday" fame playing her daughter, Astrid. They'll be joined by a returning Catherine O'Hara as Delia Deetz and M
onica Bellucci of "The Matrix" s
eries as Beetlejuice's wife. Justin T
heroux of "The Leftovers" fa
rome is playing a ch
aracter named Rory, and the Green Goblin himself, Willem Dafoe, will be playing a B-movie star turned afterlife law enfo
rcement officer. And, of course, you can't have a "Beetlejuice" m
ovie without Michael Ke
aton, and the Oscar-nominated star is in
deed returning as the g
host with the most.
The script hails from "Wednesday" scribes Miles Millar and Alfred Gough, and Burton himself is returning to direct the project, with long-time collaborator Danny Elfman scoring the pic. Perhaps the most exciting bit of news about the upcoming movie involves the visual effects. Reports coming out of 2024's CinemaCon praised the movie's heavy reliance on practical effects, including stop-motion animation. Prepare for some spooky laughs and hopefully a lot of Harry Belafonte songs on September 6, 2024.