Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder will reportedly reprise their roles as Beetlejuice and Lydia Deetz in the upcoming Beetlejuice 2. In 1988, Keaton and Ryder originated the characters in Tim Burton's classic comedy Beetlejuice. The much-anticipated Beetlejuice sequel has been in a development struggle for more than thirty years, originally under the title Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian when Jonathan Gems was brought in to write the script in 1990.

The 1988 film centers around Adam and Barbara Maitland, played by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis. A married couple who dies and has to learn to situate themselves as ghosts in their secluded house in Winter River, Connecticut. When a new family, the Deetzes — Charles (Jeffrey Jones), Delia (Catherine O'Hara), and their daughter Lydia (Ryder) — moves in against the Maitlands' wishes, they reluctantly hire a loud, boisterous, self-proclaimed «freelance bio-exorcist» who goes by the name Beetlejuice (Keaton) to get rid of the newcomers, and things quickly get out of hand. The smash-hit of a film ended up spawning an animated series in 1989, several video games in the early '90s, and in 2019, a stage musical adaptation opened on Broadway. However, a sequel has struggled to get off the ground through all of this.

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Jeff Sneider's Hollywood Transom newsletter for The Ankler revealed that, while it hasn't been brought to Warner Bros. for an official greenlight just yet, Beetlejuice 2 is being produced by Brad Pitt's production company, Plan B Entertainment. Reportedly, filming of the project could begin as early as this coming summer, with Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder reprising their roles from the original.

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