The Sequel To 'Beetlejuice' Is Set To Release In The Fall Of 2024

TV & Film

May 11

Hollywood continues to pump out sequel, after sequel, after sequel. In the middle of all of this, we now have, you’ll never guess…another sequel! Beetlejuice 2 will be a sequel to the 1988 film Beetlejuice. Set to release a full 36 years after the original, Beetlejuice 2 will hit theatres on the Labour Day weekend in 2024.

The original movie was directed by Tim Burton and starred Michael Keaton, Geena Davis, Winona Ryder, Alec Baldwin, Jeffrey Jones, and Catherine O’Hara. It was about the titular character haunting the new inhabitants of a house to stop them from irking the spirits of the recently deceased couple who previously lived there. A cult classic, it made over $74 million at the box office. The sequel has a script being worked on by Jenna Ortega Mike Alfred Gough, Miles Millar, Seth Grahame-Smith, and David Katzenberg. Katzenberg and Grahame-Smith also have producing roles. The idea of a sequel started being spoken of in 2013, according to Keaton and Burton. Ryder said of a possible sequel, “It would be great if it happened if it was the right circumstances.”