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“Beetlejuice 2” with Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega confirms its release date

“Beetlejuice 2” with Michael Keaton and Jenna Ortega confirms its release date

The sequel to “Beetlejuice”the remembered 1988 comedy directed by Tim Burton and with the protagonist of michael keaton Like the famous ghost of the title, it will begin shooting in the coming months in the city of London and has already set its release date for September 6, 2024.

Warner Bros. Discoverythe producer of the original and also of this continuation, approved the launch day, although the arrival of “Blade”next movie of Marvel Cinematic Universe with which the studios plan to close the fifth phase of their extensive narrative.

It is that as a result of the firm strike of the Writers Union of the United States in demand for better wages and working conditions, which since last May 2 has dozens of films, series and television programs in suspense, Marvel paused “Blade”, and the filmmakers of “Beetlejuice 2” they bet on an eventual delay in its landing in theaters.

The new one “Beetlejuice”scripted by Alfred Gough and thousands thousandwill have the young American actress Jenna Ortega in the title role of the film as the daughter of Lydia Deetz, the character played in the original film by Winona Ryder.

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Jenna Ortega will be part of the new Tim Burton movie

It will be the second time that Ortega collaborates with the director of “Young Scissorhands”after working together on the highly successful strip “Merlin”of Netflixwho established his fame in Hollywood after joining the cast of different horror films, such as “The night of the Demon 2” (2013), “The Nanny: Deadly Queen” (2020) and two installments of “Scream”.

Rumors that Burton was in talks to make this second installment date back to 2013, when both he and michael keaton and Ryder were interested in reincarnating the roles that found them on the set 35 years ago along with other figures such as Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones and Catherine O’Hara.

Last February, the production company Plan B, owned by Brad Pittjoined the project together with the Warner Bros. Discovery studios and accelerated the possibility of the continuation of this film, which after its premiere in the late 80s became a pop culture phenomenon and was even taken to the musical format and animated series.

The “Beetlejuice” The original centered on Charles (Jones), Delia (O’Hara) and their daughter Lydia, a modern New York family moving into the home of Barbara (Davis) and Adam Maitland (Baldwin), a young married couple who had recently died in a car accident.

However, their ghosts do not want to leave their home or allow it to be reoccupied, so they recruit Beetlejuice (Keaton), a mischievous and eccentric “bio-exorcist” ghost, with a mission to scare the living out of the house.

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