Beetlejuice 2 shares first look at Willem Dafoe and Monica Belluci in long-awaited sequel trailer

A brand new trailer for Tim Burton’s long-awaited Beetlejuice Beetlejuice has supplied followers a glimpse of recent characters performed by Willem Dafoe, Monica Bellucci and Justin Theroux.

The movie, which is about to be launched in cinemas on 6 September, is the sequel to Burton’s beloved 1988 horror comedy Beetlejuice.

The brand new trailer confirms the loss of life of Deetz household patriach Charles, who was performed by Jeffrey Jones within the authentic film.

The sequel sees Winona Ryder reprise her function as Lydia Deetz, who’s now an grownup with a daughter of her personal, Astrid, performed by Wednesday breakout star Jenna Ortega.

Within the wake of Charles’ loss of life, Astrid summons Beetlejuice, performed as soon as once more by Michael Keaton in one of many actor’s iconic roles.

Schitt’s Creek star Catherine O’Hara additionally returns as Lydia’s mom Delia Deetz.

Newcomers to the forged embrace Bellucci, who performs Beetlejuice’s spouse, Dafoe, who performs the sinister Wolf Jackson, and Justin Theroux as a personality named Rory.

Home of the Dragon’s Arthur Conti additionally joins the forged to make his function movie debut.

Earlier this 12 months, Burton revealed that the sequel was impressed by his personal journey “from cool teenager to lame grownup”.

The Edward Scissorhands director, 65, informed Leisure Weekly that getting Keaton again into the long-lasting costume and make-up was “a bizarre out-of-body expertise”.

“He simply received again into it,” Burton stated. “It was form of scary for any individual who was possibly not that overly keen on doing it. It was such an exquisite factor for me to see all of the forged, however he, kind of like demon possession, simply went proper again into it.”

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He added that he and Keaton had mentioned a sequel for years, however that “except it felt proper, he had no burning need to do it.”

Burton continued: “I believe all of us felt the identical manner. It solely made sense if it had an emotional hook.”

He stated they discovered that hook in Ortega’s character Astrid.

“I so recognized with the Lydia character, however then you definately get to all these years later, and you’re taking your individual journey, going from cool teenager to lame grownup, backwards and forwards once more,” defined Burton. “That made it emotional, gave it a basis. In order that was the factor that actually actually received me into it.”

Final 12 months, Burton informed The Impartial that engaged on the Beetlejuice sequel had reawakened his love for film-making.

“On this final one, Beetlejuice 2, I actually loved it,” he stated. “I attempted to strip every part and return to the fundamentals of working with good individuals and actors and puppets. It was form of like going again to why I favored making motion pictures.”