Beetlejuice sequel has a new title that comes dangerously close to summoning The Ghost With The Most
Tim Burton's long-awaited sequel, starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Jenna Ortega, is coming in September
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After a long delay between the last two days of filming (because of the Hollywood strikes), Beetlejuice 2 is finally set to come out, and not only does it have an official release date, but it has a new official title. Unfortunately, the title is not Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, which was the original title pitched for a failed attempt to make a sequel in 1990. The new title is still fun, though, with the official Beetlejuice Instagram revealing that it is—what else?—Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
That means, if they make a third movie, it’ll be called… something we can’t say without being terrorized by a certain horrible undead fiend in a striped suit who we’d rather not get involved with. We don’t know much about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, other than that it’s not about the Deetz family moving to Hawaii and bringing Michael Keaton’s Betelgeuse along with for some reason, but we do know that it will feature Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reprising their roles from the first movie (don’t Google too many of the other stars of the first movie). They’ll be joined by Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, and Willem Dafoe, with Ortega apparently playing the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia Deetz.
Tim Burton, who worked with Ortega on Netflix’s Wednesday and directed the original Beetlejuice, directed this one as well. As confirmed in that same Instagram post, it’ll be in theaters on September 6 of this year, but—not counting the headline—we’ve said his name nine times, which means we summoned him, sent him away, and then summoned him again, so now we have to send him away before he turns our weird art into snakes and tries to marry us: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!
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I may have to see this in the drive in, should be a great movie to enjoy a j and a couple beers with.
Our local drive-in does double features. Pretty sure their billboard will read“BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice Beetlejuice”
UH OOOOOOOOH!
Yep the three that are near me have always done double features, that’s one of the things that make them far superior to regular theaters. I really hope one of them does that, it would be hilarious!
Oh man, I’d love this in a drive-in!
Huh… What’s going on here? I was trying to take a nap. Also, who stole my face!
“if they make a third movie”
Come on, dude, they’re going to make a third movie.
(don’t Google too many of the other stars of the first movie)What do you have against Geena Davis?
Geena Davis, catching a stray.
Despite what you have heard, her archery is sub par
But her memoir is delightful! Seriously, it’s called “Dying of Politeness”, and it’s pretty terrific, just like her.
She is awesome. I was just being silly
I know! I just wanted to plug her book – it really is good.
Jeffrey Jones. Ugh.
Well he DID say “too many”, not all.
This movie is perfect for Tommy Two Times, two times.
I’m gonna go see Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, go see Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice.
Geena Davis is 100% going to turn up at least in a cameo. Adam may be otherwise disposed…
Lydia: “How’s Adam?”
Barbara: “Oh, he’s off somewhere being a ghost, along with your dad Charles.”
Nice fuckin’ title.
*honk honk*
so…it’ll either be blatant a re-make/requel of the first or it’ll have lame, forced sentimentality in a story that makes you wish you’d rather just watch the original again. i’m sure WB wants to make a cinematic universe out of this too.
I’m waiting for the trailer that features a slowed down, hushed-voiced cover of “The Banana Boat Song.”
So Beetlejuice²
I was thinking if they make a third it might be called Beetlejuice³ but hopefully that somehow sidesteps the summoning process?
No Glenn Shadix to return as Otho, though.No Bob Goulet, either.Dick Cavett, I was just amazed to learn, is still alive, and is 87 years young.Also, are they going to digitally de-age Keaton for this? How do you explain a ghost looking more than 30 years older than the last time anyone saw him?
I figure the original makeup is enough to cover fine lines and such, it was already aging him by a few hundred years, what’s another 30.
Yeah, the makeup. With that kind of makeup it’s extremely unlikely that his age difference would be apparent.
Idk what’s the need to physically de-age him? One he’ll be nearly unrecognizable in makeup. Two there’s no rule saying the undead can’t change in appearance – in fact they do all the time in the first. If you have to explain it, and I wouldn’t, just say he was punished with an aging spell or serum by some ghost he was trying to seduce. Or it’s a side effect of his head embiggening after shrinking at the end of the movie.
“My hair!”
Glenn Shadix was the best part of the movie. “Deliver me from L.L. Bean.”
His is one of my favorite bit parts in Heathers, too.
I’m scrambling to remember his role in Heathers…was he the undertaker at the dead gay (but beloved) son?
The priest. “ESKIMO.”
“How do you explain a ghost looking more than 30 years older than the last time anyone saw him?”Easy: “The actor has aged.” Voila! It turns out most of us can suspend disbelief.
I refuse to use my imagination! Just replace him with the digital Peter Cushing.
No, these days any little change in anything (in the real world) has to have an elaborate explanation in the film because we’re giant babies. See also: everybody theorizing how in the world Disney/Marvel can POSSIBLY deal with the Jonathan Majors controversy. We can’t just have a new dude, we have to make up some multiverse bullshit! Ugh I hate what the internet has done to movies/franchises.
I just read Shadix’s biography. Guy had some pretty rough times in his life, and died too young.
Also, are they going to digitally de-age Keaton for this? How do you explain a ghost looking more than 30 years older than the last time anyone saw him?They don’t need to explain this at all – maybe a quick joke about his age if they have a good one.
I guess we’re all just going to ignore Alec Baldwin not reprising his role?
RIP Shadix. He had such a tough early life: Shadix came out as gay at the age of 17. His parents then enrolled him in ex-gay therapy which included shock treatments. When this failed to change his orientation, he attempted suicide by overdosing with Elavil. His parents rushed him to a hospital, where he survived a three-day coma. After the incident, his parents began to accept his sexuality
definitely figured they’d call this ‘beetlejuice: requiem’ or some shit so at least it has a fun name. really reaching the bottom of the barrel with legacy sequels.
I was hoping for a Godfather 2 style prequel/sequel called “Beetlejuice Begins”.
At least, honestly glad it’s not “Beetlejuice Returns”. I guess it could have had a batshit opening sequence like “Batman Returns”, but it’d be hard to top Pee-Wee Herman and Simone throwing their monstrous baby into the sewer on Christmas Eve.
Dawn of the Rise of the Planet of Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice 2: Electric Boogaloo
Beetlejuice: Afterlife, and Otho triumphantly joins everyone during the climactic battle.
Juiced!
Beetlejuicier, with the option for the final sequel to be Beetlejuiciest.
I’m all in!
“That means, if they make a third movie, it’ll be called… something we
can’t say without being terrorized by a certain horrible undead fiend in
a striped suit who we’d rather not get involved with.”So the “See it Don’t Say It” Version
This means a third film is coming next and will have the three name title and end this franchise as a trilogy.
2 Beetle 2 Juice
Plot… After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return to the small Vermont town of Winter River. Paranormal empath, Lydia Deetz, begins to see the lecherous demon Beetlejuice who haunted her as a teenager. His plans to finally marry Lydia are given extra urgency when his dead wife comes to life and begins to stalk the Afterlife hunting for him. Meanwhile, Lydia’s teenage daughter embarks on a romance with a local teen.