UPDATED, 11:18 a.m.: “The living, the dead. Can they coexist?” Winona Ryder’s Lydia asks in the new trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice unveiled by Warner Bros on Thursday. “That’s what we’re here to find out.”
Reteaming director Tim Burton with Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton, the stars of his classic 1988 supernatural comedy Beetlejuice, the sequel introduces Jenna Ortega as Lydia’s daughter, Astrid, who like her mother, will come to be haunted by a “trickster demon” after saying his name three times.
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Expected to be one of the year’s breakout hits, the film arrives in theaters on September 6. Read more about it below and check out the new trailer above.
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PREVIOUSLY, MARCH 21: Warner Bros on Thursday released the teaser trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the sequel to the classic 1988 movie that brings back Tim Burton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara and Michael Keaton’s smack-talking ghost with the most.
The pic is gearing up for its release September 6 with the teaser drop, after showing the first images from the film earlier this week.
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There’s only one line of dialogue in the 1-minute, 16-second tease, when Keaton’s Beetlejuice rises from his model town in the attic to proclaim to a shocked Lydia (Ryder), “The Juice is loose.”
Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, Arthur Conti and Monica Bellucci are among the newcomers for the sequel.
The logline: Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Ortega), 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.
The screenplay hails from Ortega’s Wednesday cohorts Alfred Gough & Miles Millar, from a story by Gough & Millar and Seth Grahame-Smith and based on characters created by Michael McDowell & Larry Wilson.
Keaton said earlier this month in an interview that the sequel “is beautiful, physically. The other one was so fun and exciting visually, it’s all that but really beautiful and interestingly emotional here and there. I wasn’t ready for that. It’s great.”
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Ortega, briefly shown in the teaser riding her bike over the town’s famed wooden covered bridge that figured so prominently in the first film, also gave hints recently to the sequel, and playing the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia and granddaughter of O’Hara’s Delia, saying some of the story features “a lot of catching up and putting the pieces together of what’s gone on in Lydia’s life since, which is nice, I think, for anybody who loves the character and is excited to see her again.”
Check out the trailer above.