We've seen a brief teaser for Tim Burton's Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (doh!), already, but Warner Bros. is set to debut a full trailer this Thursday.
In the meantime, we have a new poster spotlighting Michael Keaton's Ghost with the Most (well, most of him) and some of his old waiting room acquaintances.
This image is a callback to Betelgeuse's final scene from the first movie, which saw the mischievous Bio-Exorcist banished to the Afterlife after falling foul of a sandworm. There's been speculation that the sequel will begin with Betelgeuse still waiting to be seen all these years later after attempting to trick the witch doctor by stealing his ticket and getting his head shrunk for his trouble.
Check out the poster at the link below, and be sure to drop back on Thursday for the new trailer.
“It’s really [frick]ing good,” Keaton said of the movie during CinemaCon earlier this year. “I was very nervous to see if we could pull this off again, but every day just got better. This cast is so good,” he added. “Everyone is so friggin’ funny.”
Many years ago, the idea for a sequel that would have relocated the story to Hawaii was tossed around, but nothing ever came of it.
“Over the years we would kind of kick the notion of it around,” The Batman star said of the "Beetlejuice goes Tropical" storyline. "[But] when we joined forces, we tried to have everything done as close to the way we made it the first time.”
"After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return to the small Vermont town of Winter River. Paranormal empath, Lydia Deetz, begins to see the lecherous demon Beetlejuice, who haunted her as a teenager. His plans to finally marry Lydia are given extra urgency when his dead wife comes to life and begins to stalk the Afterlife hunting for him. Meanwhile, Lydia’s teenage daughter embarks on a romance with a local teen."
New cast members include Jenna Ortega as Astrid Deetz, Monica Bellucci as Betelgeuse's wife, Willem Dafoe as an afterlife cop, and Justin Theroux in an undisclosed role.
Wednesday creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar penned the script.
Beetlejuice 2 is set to release in theaters on Sept. 6, 2024.