Beetlejuice 2: The first film to be completed after the Hollywood strike could be a classic in 2024

Let’s turn on the juice and see what rocks!

With the SAG-AFTRA strike taking effect over the summer, the long-awaited sequel was in production Beetlejuice There are only two days left of shooting.

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While this fact may have been extremely frustrating for the cast, crew, and everyone involved in the process, the reality was that they would have to wait another 118 days plus 34 years since the original film arrived in theaters.

However, once the strike ended on November 9, it meant that Beetlejuice 2 was the first major film to be completed as soon as the actors could work.

Director Tim Burton announced on Thursday, November 30, that filming has finally wrapped, and it is scheduled to be released on September 6, 2024.

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A Beetlejuice sequel could serve as an instant classic

With Michael Keaton’s performance as the chaotic exorcist, 1988’s Beetlejuice is a quotable masterpiece of bizarre film and one of Tim Burton’s most iconic films, one of the best films of his amazing career.

With many of the original cast returning for the sequel, including Keaton, Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara, as well as the strong additions of Wednesday star Jenna Ortega (Born to Be in This Movie), Willem Dafoe and Monica. Bellucci, things are looking very positive.

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Furthermore, there are Tim Burton’s assurances that the film will be a close representation of the original, right down to the low-budget puppets (Beetlejuice was produced on a budget of just $15 million).

In an interview with The Independent in September, Burton said: “I tried to strip everything away and get back to the basics of working with good people, actors and puppets. It was like going back to why I loved making films.

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In another interview, Keaton described filming the sequel as “the most fun you can have while working.”

He told Empire, “It’s so much fun, it’s so cool. And do you know what it is? We’re doing it exactly like we did in the first movie. There’s a woman in the big waiting room of the afterlife with literally a fishing line — I want people to know this because I love that.” Tail a cat to make it move.

He continued: “This must be done in a way that is close to the way we did it the first time. They make things, they make things, they improvise and they play, but literally handmade things like people making things with their hands and building something. great. “It’s the most fun I’ve ever had working on a film, I can’t tell you how much time.”

The sheer excitement radiating from Keaton about the upcoming sequel should assure us that Beetlejuice 2 is bound to be one of the classics of 2024.

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