The Juice is loose!

A whole new generation of the Deetz family is about to experience the ghastly ghoul Beetlejuice – and the same can be said for movie audiences. In the trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which comes more than 35 years after the original film that starred Michael Keaton as the afterlife’s crudest spectre, we see Lydia Deetz (Winona Ryder), her mother Delia (Catherine O’Hara), and her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) returning to Winter River after a family tragedy…but that’s just the beginning of their ordeal.

In the home where it all began, Astrid uncovers a model of the town, and somehow that leads to the portal in the Afterlife opening. Inevitably, someone says “Beetlejuice” three times and Lydia’s one-time fiance is back in the realm of the living.

Tim Burton returns to direct the sequel, from a script by Wednesday screenwriters Alfred Gough & Miles Millar. The story comes from both Gough & Millar as well as Seth Grahame-Smith, based on characters created by Michael McDowell and Larry Wilson.

Burton has wanted to make a sequel to his 1988 hit for a long time, but it took until last year to make that happen, with filming wrapping up after the conclusion of the SAG/AFTRA strike. Burton both produced and directed episodes of Wednesday, so Beetlejuice Beetlejuice was a chance for them to work together again.

This is Burton’s first feature film since 2019’s live-action Dumbo movie.

In addition to the returning cast members, Willem Dafoe, Justin Theroux, Arthur Conti and Monica Belluci will be featured in the sequel. Dafoe will play a police officer whose beat is the afterlife, and Belluci is cast as Beetlejuice’s wife. There’s no mention of a return for Geena Davis or Alec Baldwin, who played the original (and deceased) owners of the Deetz’s home in the first film, but seeing one of both in a cameo is always possible.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will apparate into theaters and IMAX on September 6th.