A batch of new images from the filming of the long-awaited horror-comedy sequel,Beetlejuice 2, reveal our first look at Wednesday star Jenna Ortega as the daughter of Winona Ryder’s Lydia Deetz. And it appears that another wedding is on the cards. Released courtesy ofPEOPLE, the images find Ortega in a pink-and-white wedding dress, suggesting that Michael Keaton’s Betelgeuse may be trying to get hitched once again. Check out the images from the filming ofBeetlejuice 2below.
Orgtega was spotted filmingBeetlejuice 2alongside original star Winona Ryder, who will reprise the role of Lydia Deetz in the follow-up. Ryder isback in the gothic garbas she and Ortega filmedBeetlejuice 2in Hertfordshire, England, with the scene in question reportedly centering on a wedding.
Rumors of aBeetlejuicesequel have been circulating for decades, with director Tim Burton initially wanting to bring Keaton’s ghoul back in 1990 with the ill-fatedBeetlejuice Goes Hawaiian. After years and years of speculation,Beetlejuice 2is now officially in the works at Warner Bros., with both director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton set to return alongside Winona Ryder and new recruit Jenna Ortega.
While details of the plot are currently a mystery, it has been revealed that Ortega will take the lead inBeetlejuice 2, playing the daughter of Winona Ryder’s character from the original movie. Catherine O’Hara will also return as Delia Deetz, with the sequel adding the likes of Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe, and Monica Bellucci as Betelgeuse’s wife. Which creates a few questions about this wedding scene. Can Betelgeuse take several wives? Or is it another ghoul seeking to wed Ortega’s character?
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Beetlejuice 2 Is Due to Land in Theaters in September 2024
Released back in 1988, the firstBeetlejuicewas directed by Tim Burton, and written by Michael McDowell, Larry Wilson, and Warren Skaaren. Starring Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jones, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton, this gothic tale ghosts and ghouls begins when newly deceased couple, Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin as Barbara and Adam Maitland respectively, contact the devious “bio-exorcist” Beetlejuice, bringing him up from the Netherworld in order to scare away the new inhabitants of their old house — a house they are currently haunting.
Beetlejuice 2has been in the works for some time, and Michael Keaton is very glad to be back. “[Burton] and I were talking about it years and years ago, never telling anybody. I said, if it happens, first of all, we’ve both said we’re doing it many times. We both agreed, if it happens, it has to be done as close to the way we made it the first time,”the actor said last month. “Making stuff up, making stuff happen, improvising and riffing, but literally handmade stuff like people creating things with their hands and building something. F–kin’ great. It’s the most fun I’ve had working on a movie in I can’t tell you how long."
Directed by Tim Burton from a screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar,Beetlejuice 2isset to be theatrically releasedon July 14, 2025, by Warner Bros. Pictures.
