LAS VEGAS – His character Beetlejuice is known for not fitting in, and Michael Keaton is pretty good at standing out.
When director Tim Burton and his “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” castmates showed up to a presentation Tuesday at CinemaCon to discuss their film, Keaton wore a brown jacket and white pants while everyone else was dressed in black – or like Burton said, “It’s like attending our own funeral. Like Beetlejuice, Keaton is quick with the zingers: “I didn’t get the memo. I look happy.”
Burton came to the theater owners’ convention with a lengthy trailer for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (in theaters Sept. 6), the long-awaited sequel to the original 1988 supernatural comedy starring Keaton as the “ghost demonic who has the most. The Deetzes, including Lydia (Winona Ryder) and her mother Delia (Catherine O’Hara), return home to Winter River after a death in the family, and Lydia’s rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega), finds role model of the city in the attic that housed a certain green-haired menace.
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Cue Beetlejuice, who is back to cause all kinds of mayhem and mayhem in the real world and the afterlife. New images delved into the sequel’s plot, which is about the living and the dead having to figure out how to coexist, and also introduced the shrunken-headed guy from the first film, Beetlejuice reconnecting with Lydia, and a first look at the formidable character of Willem Dafoe. Delores, the gothic villainess of Wolf Jackson and Monica Bellucci.
Having Bellucci in the film “fulfilled my lifelong dream of making an Italian horror film,” Burton joked. The actress said she loved all the “beautiful sets and incredible costumes. For a moment, I really felt like I was soul-sucking evil.”
Keaton shouted out new actor Ortega, who was unable to make it to Vegas due to his production schedule. “She just figured it out. She said, ‘I know what the tone is.’ She was just perfect,” Keaton said.
And his original co-star, O’Hara, is happy that people stop asking him about a sequel like they have for 30 years. “Getting the call from Tim was delightful. The characters evolved – not Beetlejuice, but the rest of us.”
The sequel is a long-term project for Keaton and Burton, who called it “a strange family reunion.” Every few years or so, “we would talk about it,” Keaton said. “The first one was fun because we and Tim were figuring it out. We went crazy. To replicate that, I was very nervous to see us succeed again.”
And them ? “It’s really (expletive) good,” Keaton said in his signature Beetlejuice growl, exciting the crowd. “Actually, it’s great.”
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