Warning: This text incorporates spoilers from Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice noticed the return of Michael Keaton because the title character over three many years later, however not the entire unique forged made a return.
The sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice premiered in theaters on Sept. 6, 2024, incomes over $110 million in its opening weekend. The film revisits the Deetz household — together with Winona Ryder‘s ghost-seeing Lydia Deetz and Catherine O’Hara‘s eccentric Delia Deetz — after the household patriarch, Charles Deetz, has died. The household returns to the home as soon as haunted by Barbara (Geena Davis) and Adam Maitland (Alec Baldwin) within the unique film, however this time, extra nefarious plots are afoot.
Hassle begins when Lydia begins seeing Beetlejuice, the nefarious demon, once more, whereas her daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), will get into her personal share of drama. Although the film options some acquainted faces like Ryder and O’Hara, others are noticeably lacking, together with Davis, Baldwin and Jeffrey Jones, who performed Charles.
So why did not unique forged members like Baldwin return to Beetlejuice Beetlejuice? Here is the whole lot to find out about how the film addressed their absence and why they selected to sit down the sequel out.
Which members of the unique Beetlejuice forged did not return for the sequel?
Whereas Keaton, O’Hara and Ryder returned for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, fundamental forged members Baldwin, Davis and Jones didn’t. Glenn Shadix, who performed Delia’s equally as eccentric inside designer good friend, additionally didn’t return to the sequel after his demise in 2010 at 58 years outdated.
Jones has primarily stayed out of the highlight since his legal troubles within the years since Beetlejuice. In 2003, the actor pleaded no contest to fees of possession of kid pornography after his alleged hiring of a 14-year-old boy to pose for lewd pictures. He was finally sentenced to 5 years probation, counseling and registration as a intercourse offender for the remainder of his life, per Entertainment Weekly.
Nevertheless, the next 12 months, Jones was arrested in Florida for failing to replace his intercourse offender standing. He was arrested as soon as once more in California in 2010 and pled responsible, resulting in a sentence of hours of neighborhood service and extra years of probation, as BBC News reported.
Although a number of the unique forged did not return, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice added an entire slate of actors, together with Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci, Justin Theroux and Ortega. Bellucci performs Beetlejuice’s soul-sucking (actually) ex-wife, whereas Dafoe stars as an actor who turned a cop within the afterlife and makes an attempt to hunt her down. Theroux is Lydia’s associate and soon-to-be Astrid’s stepfather, a lot to her chagrin.
What have Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis stated about not returning?
Although Baldwin has not spoken on his absence from the sequel, Davis did make feedback main as much as the film’s launch. She confirmed she would not be returning in April 2024 whereas talking to Entertainment Tonight.
“No, I am not. I am not within the remake,” she stated. “Oh, you had been anticipating that I’d be? Yeah, no, you already know what? As a result of my idea is that ghosts do not age… Not that I’ve.”
She added that she speculated she wasn’t returning as a result of it had been 30 years since she was final within the film — however her character was presupposed to look precisely the identical.
“Our characters had been caught the best way they regarded after they died ceaselessly, so it has been some time, it has been a minute,” Davis continued.
Although she admitted her inclusion could be inconsistent with the story, Davis did inform PEOPLE in 2022 that she “would of course like to revisit” her character once more.
What did Tim Burton say about some forged members not returning?
Director Tim Burton defined to PEOPLE in August 2024 that he felt like the brand new story he needed to inform did not embrace the Maitlands and was extra centered on the connection between grandmother, mom and daughter.
“I feel the factor was for me I did not need to just tick any boxes,” he stated. “So regardless that they had been such a tremendous integral a part of the primary one, I used to be specializing in one thing else.”
He added that the important thing to the most recent set up was time and the significance of building this story a few years later.
“A sequel like this, it actually needed to do with the time,” Burton stated. “That was my hook into it, the three generations of mom, daughter, granddaughter. And that [would] be the nucleus of it. I could not have made this personally again in 1989 or no matter.”
How did the film clarify what occurred to these characters?
The absence of the Maitlands is briefly addressed within the film when Lydia shares that the ghosts that previously haunted their house had been capable of finding a “loophole” that allowed their souls to maneuver on from the home, although within the unique film it was said that wasn’t an possibility.
As for Jones’ Charles, the Beetlejuice sequel started together with his demise, which is defined in stop-motion animation as him getting right into a aircraft crash whereas bird-watching and getting his head bit off by a shark. Nevertheless, Charles remains to be within the film, with peeks of him wandering the afterlife, not realizing he’s lifeless and nonetheless on the lookout for Delia.
Burton came up with Charles’ death, screenwriter Alfred Gough informed Entertainment Weekly, because the director was describing his personal worst nightmare, inspiring Gough to make use of it for Charles’ demise.
“The best way Charles dies in that animated piece is Tim’s nightmare of dying,” Gough stated. “He actually pitched that: ‘My nightmare is, I am in a aircraft crash, I survive the aircraft crash, I virtually drown, after which a shark eats me.’ We had been like, ‘Properly, that is genius. In order that’s going to be how he dies.’ ”
Who performs Charles Deetz in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
Although Jones didn’t return for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, his character was nonetheless featured within the film. Nevertheless, the movie cleverly avoids displaying Charles’ face as his head is bitten off by a shark, leaving solely his bloodied corpse strolling across the underworld headless.
Although Charles does have a number of traces within the film, the voice actor and stand-in is uncredited, so it’s not clear who performs the character within the new movie.