Everything We Know About the Upcoming 'Beetlejuice' Sequel

Jenna Ortega stars alongside Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder.

The long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton's iconic 1988 film is (almost) here, and as of July 18 we've got yet another preview of the film in the form of a second trailer.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, a.k.a. Beetlejuice 2, will make its movie theater debut in the U.S. on September 6. True to the sequel format, it will pick back up with some key original cast members, including Winona Ryder, and introduce some new ones, like Jenna Ortega. The new script was written by Seth Grahame-Smith alongside two of Burton's collaborators from Wednesday, Alfred Gough and Miles Millar.

Of course, the news of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was especially exciting for fans who have been waiting on a sequel ever since Winona Ryder prematurely confirmed it back in 2015. It took another nine years to get here, but we made it: once again, the juice is loose.

The 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' trailers

We have not one but two trailers to tide us over until September 6. In late May, Warner Bros. offered the first glimpse of the follow-up to Tim Burton's cult classic. Appropriately, the preview opened with the iconic Winona Ryder.

Then, in July, a second trailer dropped, hinting at what sounds like a tense dynamic between Ryder and Jenna Ortega, who plays her daughter.

The 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' cast

In addition to director Tim Burton reprising his role for Beetlejuice 2, a number of original cast members are also back at it for the sequel. Chief among them? Michael Keaton, who plays the namesake villain, Beetlejuice, and '90s icon Winona Ryder, a.k.a. Lydia Deetz.

"I so identified with the Lydia character," Burton told Entertainment Weekly. "But then you get to all these years later, and you take your own journey, going from cool teenager to lame adult, back and forth again. That made it emotional, gave it a foundation. So that was the thing that really truly got me into [doing the sequel]."

Jenna Ortega also stars in the film as Astrid Deetz, Lydia's daughter, making this her second collaboration with Burton (they also worked together on the Netflix show Wednesday).

“[Astrid] is weird, but in a different way and not in the way you’d assume, I would say," Ortega said in an interview with Vanity Fair. "The relationship between Lydia and Astrid, my character, is very important. And it’s also really strange because it’s 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.”

Rounding out the lineup is original cast member Catherine O'Hara (Delia Deetz), plus Justin Theroux (Rory), Willem Dafoe (Wolf Jackson), Burn Gorman (Father Damien), and Monica Bellucci (Beetlejuice's wife, Delores).

The 'Beetlejuice Beetlejuice' plot

According to Burton, Keaton didn't want to make a Beetlejuice sequel without an "emotional hook," and the new film certainly has one in the intergenerational dynamic between Delia Deetz, her daughter Lydia Deetz, and her daughter, Astrid Deetz. Beyond that, the director hasn't given much away in terms of plot, but the trailers paint a fairly good picture: the film clearly begins with a death in the family (Lydia's father, Charles Deetz) and his funeral brings the whole family back together again.

Charles's death isn't the only tragedy the family is grappling with; Lydia is now also a widow, having lost her husband (and Astrid's father). She hosts a TV show called Ghost House where she communes with the dead, however, she is unable to connect with her late husband.

At some point, Astrid finds old Beetlejuice ephemera in her mother's attic, and recites what is probably the most famous line from the original film: "Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice." As for the chaos that unravels afterwards? You'll have to wait for September 6 to see it go down in theaters.

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