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In 2024,the ghost with the most is backand his new picture show is one word short of total topsy-turvyness . Warner Bros. loose the first patch ofofficial marketing for Beetlejuice 2on Thursday and with it , we now get laid that it ’s not really called “ Beetlejuice 2 . ” It ’s telephone … Beetlejuice Beetlejuice .

For those who might not have the 1988 flick at the top of their memory , Michael Keaton plays a specter for hire who appears when you say his name three times . So forebode this sequel “ Beetlejuice Beetlejuice ” is not only a very canny ( if borderline puzzling ) conclusion , it also entail a sure escalation and peradventure even that Beetlejuice 2 is not the end of the tarradiddle . Here ’s the puzzler poster with the title reveal , and a little blink of an eye at another setting from the master .

Of course , the wait room act recall another one of Beetlejuice ’s memorable scene , where he visits a wait way in the hereafter and stimulate a preposterously mellow number , only to steal a smaller one from a fellow ghost .

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Will that act as into this 2d movie ? It might have to , considering that moment provide Beetlejuice with a shrunken head , but we do n’t roll in the hay . What we do know is that this sequel is once again direct by Tim Burton and return stars Michael Keaton as Beetlejuice , Winona Rider as Lydia , and Catherine O’Hara as her mom , Delia . Jenna Ortega is now also along for the ride as Lydia ’s daughter , and Monica Bellucci is Beetlejuice ’s married woman . Willem Dafoe and Justin Theroux round out the cast .

As the poster says , it ’s scheduled for release on September 6 , give us a star - stud thrill - off to the nervous crepuscule season . We ca n’t wait . And , yes , after nearly 40 years , “ the postponement is almost over . ”

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