The Juice Is Loose Again in the First Trailer for 36-Years-Later Sequel 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice'

He's the ghost with the most, as well as the poltergeist bio-exorcist who turned life into chaos for the Deetz family — and he's returning to the big screen after 36 years. Calls for 1988's Beetlejuice to get a sequel have been echoing for decades, with a followup finally locked in in 2023. Entitled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, it's hitting cinemas this September, and it has just revealed its first teaser trailer.

Yes, Michael Keaton (The Flash) and Winona Ryder (Stranger Things) are back with the poltergeists. So is Schitt's Creek's great Catherine O'Hara (Argylle). Keaton reprises the titular role, of course, while Ryder and O'Hara return as Lydia and Delia Deetz, the mother and daughter who learned what trying to live with Betelgeuse was like the first time around.

Filmmaker Tim Burton also sits in the director's chair again, on what marks his first feature since 2019's Dumbo. He's no stranger to revisiting to his past work, as seen when he made two Batman movies in the late 80s and 90s, and when he adapted his short Frankenweenie into a full-length flick. He also loves collaborating with the same talent again and again, such as bringing in his Wednesday star Jenna Ortega (Finestkind) to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to play the daughter of Ryder's Lydia.

As the first sneak peek at the sequel shows, tragedy ushers three generations of the Deetz family back to Winter River. Lydia remains haunted by a certain spirit — but then Astrid, Ortega's character, opens the portal to the afterlife.

You don't need a Handbook for the Recently Deceased in your ghostly hands to get excited, but you might spend time with folks with one, which is what happened with the original flick's Barbara and Adam Maitland (GLOW's Geena Davis and Dr Death's Alec Baldwin). In the first film, viewers also saw what happened when that pair started to suspect that they're no longer alive, a new family moved into their house and they decided they needed a bio-exorcist.

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In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Keaton, Ryder, O'Hara and Ortega are joined by Justin Theroux (White House Plumbers), Monica Bellucci (Mafia Mamma), Arthur Conti (House of the Dragon) and Oscar nominee Willem Dafoe (Poor Things), all newcomers to the franchise.

Behind the lens, Burton is working with a screenplay by Wednesday's Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, with Seth Grahame-Smith (The Lego Batman Movie) coming up with the story by Gough.

If you say "Beetlejuice" three times, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice won't arrive in cinemas quicker — but it is hitting the silver screen before the musical version of the first film finally makes its way Down Under in 2025.

Check out the first trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice below:

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will release in cinemas Down Under on Thursday, September 5, 2024.

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