'It was very hush hush, top secret.'
Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice.
Last year, director Tim Burton and the "bio-exorcist" ghost himself, Michael Keaton, teased the long-brewing sequel to the 1988 classic, but on Monday, Winona Ryder uttered the very necessary third incantation of that name. And thus, a Beetlejuice sequel appears.
“I think I can confirm it,” Ryder explained on Late Night with Seth Meyers. “It was very hush hush, top secret...then [Burton] was doing some press for Big Eyes and he did an on-camera interview and he said, ‘Oh yeah we’re doing it, and Winona’s going to be in it.’"
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While we wait, check out what the original cast looks like over 25 years later:
Michael Keaton as Betelgeuse
Winona Ryder as Lydia Deetz
Catherine O’Hara as Delia Deetz
(The actor who plays her on-screen husband Charles, Jeffrey Jones, hasn’t walked a red carpet since 2008. But we’d be happy to see what he looks like now if he appears in this next movie!)
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Alec Baldwin as Adam Maitland
Geena Davis as Barbara Maitland
Now, revisit the set of Beetlejuice to hear Winona’s best monkey impression: