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  • Tim Burton Explains Why Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis Aren’t in ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel

    Tim Burton Explains Why Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis Aren’t in ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel

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    Tim Burton explained Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis‘ absence from his Beetlejuice sequel this week.

    Though Burton brought back original stars Winona Ryder, Catherina O’Hara and Michael Keaton for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, his 2024 follow-up to the 1988 classic, Baldwin and Davis do not return.

    “I think the thing was for me I didn’t want to just tick any boxes,” Burton told People. “So even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one, I was focusing on something else.”

    In the original film, Baldwin and Davis played Adam and Barbara Maitland, a recently deceased couple confined to the Connecticut house where they used to live when at odds with the home’s new residents, the Deetz family: Charles (Jeffrey Jones) his daughter Lydia (Ryder) and Charles’s wife Delia (O’Hara).

    In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice — which wowed audiences during its Venice Film Fest premiere on Wednesday — Jenna Ortega plays Lydia’s teenage daughter who accidentally reopens the door to the afterlife.

    “A sequel like this, it really had to do with the time,” Burton continued. “That was my hook into it, the three generations of mother, daughter, granddaughter. And that [would] be the nucleus of it. I couldn’t have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever.”

    Davis previously told Entertainment Tonight in April that her theory was she was not returning because “ghosts don’t age.”

    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will release in theaters Sept. 6.

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  • Jenna Ortega Thinks We Need More Weird Stories Like ‘Beetlejuice’

    Jenna Ortega Thinks We Need More Weird Stories Like ‘Beetlejuice’

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    What did you mean when you said the episodes are more like movies?

    I mean, in the first season we had episodes that really stood out visually, like the dance episode was a really big one for people, and that setting was very particular and it felt like Prom Night, a little bit, or Carrie. Every episode [of season two] that I’ve read so far is like that. It just stands out on its own as a very memorable scene or bit or setting, which I think is what I’m most excited for, because to pull that off for eight episodes is, I think, really incredible and really lucky.

    You’d been working for a long time before things really took off.

    I have been doing this for 12 years. It’s weird to look back on all the experiences that I’ve had doing the job that I do. And then to be here now is…I don’t know, I feel like it’s some sort of sick prank.

    You must have vivid memories of your early years, auditioning and trying to get roles.

    I wanted to start when I was six. But I didn’t actually start until I was 10. There’s a lot of things that I’ve done in my career that I used to say I wanted to do, or dreamed about doing. I’m definitely a perfectionist, but I also think that that comes with never being satisfied or never being able to stop and slow down and appreciate what’s been going on or what I’ve seen. The last few months I’ve been able to reflect on the fact that a lot of the things that I wanted to do when I was younger, including work with Tim Burton, have happened. I almost didn’t realize it because I was so focused on the work and had tunnel vision.

    Does it still live up to what you imagined?

    To still enjoy the job just as much 12 years later—even seeing all of the ugly and wonderful and extreme—I think is pretty cool. I made this decision when I was 10, so I’m living off of a 10-year-old’s choices.

    Anything you wish you’d done differently?

    I’m very much a people pleaser. I like to say that I’m not anymore—but I am. I wish that I felt that I was a bit more in control of my experiences. When I was younger, I was just so happy to be a part of the conversation that I wasn’t really playing it in a strategic way. Not that it has to be. I wish that maybe I had felt more autonomy in who I was from a younger age. I think I’ve definitely fallen into patterns of taking myself too seriously or not being able to create much balance in my life.

    Balance in what way?

    When I was younger, I wasn’t thinking about sleepovers and friends and proms. It was always, “What am I going to do next? How am I going to get this job? What meeting should I take?” It was work and school and sleep and repeat. So it’s been funny as I’ve gotten older to realize, “Huh, yeah, you do need your hands in other bowls and you do need to take a step and a breather.” I’m glad that I realize that now, but it’s strange to have not really had that experience or been eager for that experience when I was younger.

    It’s important to have connections back to reality.

    Definitely. Everything that’s happened—it almost feels like another person that people are talking about. I don’t feel attached to my name at all, or people’s perception of my name. I have conversations with people all the time about the position that I’m in now and everything that’s happening, but nothing in my personal life has really changed or been altered in any way. It almost doesn’t sound real. I just feel very detached from the whole thing, which maybe helps as well. But at the same time, it’s kind of scary. I don’t know how people do it. I feel like there’s probably some handbook out there that just was never handed to me.

    This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. For fashion and beauty details, go to VF.com/credits.

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  • Michael Keaton Says He Wanted ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel to “Feel Handmade”

    Michael Keaton Says He Wanted ‘Beetlejuice’ Sequel to “Feel Handmade”

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    Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice: Say it three times, and Michael Keaton will open up about the upcoming sequel of his iconic 1988 film, Beetlejuice.

    In a recent interview with People magazine, the actor who portrays the rambunctious spirit revealed that he and director Tim Burton were “hesitant and cautious” about making a sequel for the classic but ended up having so much fun working on it.

    “We thought, ‘You got to get this right. Otherwise, just don’t do it. Let’s just go on with our lives and do other things.’ So I was hesitant and cautious, and [Burton] was probably equally as hesitant and cautious over all these years,” he told the publication. “Once we got there, I said, ’OK, let’s just go for it. Let’s just see if we can do it, if we can pull this off.’”

    Keaton shared that early in production, he and the filmmaker also discussed how neither one of them was particularly interested in doing something that was too technology-heavy.

    “It had to feel handmade,” he said. “What made it fun was watching somebody in the corner actually holding something up for you, to watch everybody in the shrunken head room and say, ‘Those are people under there, operating these things, trying to get it right.’”

    He continued, “It’s the most exciting thing when you get to do that again after years of standing in front of a giant screen, pretending somebody’s across the way from you.”

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    Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara return for Beetlejuice 2, aka Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which also stars Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux in new roles. Sources previously told The Hollywood Reporter that the Ortega plays the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia, while Dafoe portrays an afterlife law enforcement officer, and Bellucci takes on the role of Beetlejuice’s wife.

    The sequel also reunites Ortega with Wednesday director Burton, as well as co-showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. Production on the film wrapped in Vermont in November.

    Beetlejuice Beetlejuice hits theaters Sept. 6.

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  • ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Gets Official Release Date

    ‘Beetlejuice 2’ Gets Official Release Date

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    One of the longest-in-development sequels in the history of movies is finally, actually happening.

    Ever since the original Beetlejuice became a surprise hit in 1988, Warner Bros. had looked at ways to continue the franchise. Way back in 1990 a sequel titled Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian was in development, but (obviously) that never came to pass. Every few years, rumors would bubble up that director Tim Burton or star Michael Keaton were interested in returning, or looking at a new concept for a sequel. But decades past without a new film featuring everyone’s favorite ghost with the most.

    That will change soon, though, as Warners has now officially slotted Beetlejuice 2 for a release in the early fall of 2024. Both Burton and Keaton will be back as director and star, respectively, and Jenna Ortega of Wednesday fame is also attached. The most recent version of the film’s script was written by Mike Vukadinovich. Production on the movie begins later this week, according to Deadline.

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    There’s not too much more known about the film at this point, but Burton’s longtime composer (and writer of the music in the original Beetlejuice) Danny Elfman recently said that Keaton will look much the same as he did way back in 1988, thanks to Beetlejuice’s ghostly white makeup. (“He already looked like he was 150 in the first one. It’s perfect, you know? Everybody else has to play the next generation, except for Michael.”)

    Beetlejuice 2 is now scheduled to open in theaters on September 6, 2024. Its official title is still to be announced.

    An Artificial Intelligence Pitches Sequels to Classic Movies

    We asked an A.I. chatbot to write the unmade sequels to popular movies. Here were its suggestions. Some are pretty good! Others are … really weird.

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