Summary
- Beetlejuice 2 will reunite Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton after Wednesday season 1, continuing Burton's comeback and further establishing Ortega as a rising star.
- The connections between Beetlejuice 2 and Wednesday will be maintained through the involvement of key crew , including composer Danny Elfman and co-creators Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, ensuring a strong continuation of Burton's successful comeback.
Beetlejuice 2’s cast and long-awaited story.
Tim Burton is gathering many of his greatest collaborators for Beetlejuice 2, which is slated to premiere in September 2024, over 36 years after the 1988 original movie. In addition to casting Wednesday’s Jenna Ortega as Lydia Deetz’s daughter, Burton is bringing back original Beetlejuice actors Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara to reprise their roles. However, further increasing the anticipation for Wednesday season 2’s arrival, the cast and crew of Beetlejuice 2 have grown to significantly overlap with those of the Addams Family spinoff, making the horror-comedy movie a much bigger reunion for the Netflix series than just Ortega and Burton.
Beetlejuice 2 Brings Back Several Key Figures From Wednesday's Crew
Tim Burton and Jenna Ortega are being ed by several other crew from Wednesday season 1 for Beetlejuice 2. After having already collaborated with Tim Burton on 17 movies and the TV show Wednesday, composer Danny Elfman has confirmed that he’s back to score the music for Beetlejuice 2. Danny Elfman previously provided the music for Beetlejuice in 1988, which was his second collaboration with the filmmaker after the 1985 comedy Pee-wee’s Big Adventure. Another familiar Wednesday crew member who is coming along for Beetlejuice 2 is Oscar-winning costume designer Colleen Atwood, who first began her collaborations with Tim Burton in 1990’s Edward Scissorhands.
The connections between Beetlejuice 2 and Wednesday will also be maintained by filmmaking duo Alfred Gough and Miles Millar. While the two serve as the co-creators and showrunners of Netflix’s Wednesday, they’re also working with Burton on Beetlejuice 2 as the highly-anticipated sequel’s screenwriters. Furthermore, Wednesday editor Jay Prychidny will take on the same role for Beetlejuice 2, which is now his third collaboration with Jenna Ortega after serving as the editor for Scream 6. Considering the full cast and crew of Beetlejuice 2 has yet to be revealed, it’s still possible that more Wednesday actors and behind-the-scenes figures will be part of the sequel.
Beetlejuice 2 Maintaining Wednesday's Crew Is Huge For Tim Burton's Continued Comeback
Given the massive success of the series on Netflix and its status as a pop culture phenomenon, recruiting multiple actors and crew after Wednesday season 1's ending bodes well for Beetlejuice 2 as a continuation of Tim Burton’s comeback. After more than a decade of releasing various critical or box office misfires, the popularity of and praise reserved for Wednesday marked a welcome return to form for Tim Burton’s projects in the 2020s. As he maintains this prosperous team for the sequel to one of his most beloved films, Tim Burton is shaping up to have another hit with Beetlejuice 2 and a continued comeback thereafter.
