Beetlejuice 2 sees Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder return to iconic roles | Photograph: Screengrab from Warner Bros. Footage/YouTube
The sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 “Beetlejuice” will premiere at this 12 months’s Venice Movie Competition, bringing again actor Michael Keaton because the havoc-wrecking demon, organizers stated Tuesday, July 2.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” will kick off the glitzy competition operating from Aug. 28 by means of Sept. 7 on Venice’s Lido, exhibiting out of competitors.
It comes 36 years after the unique, which helped cement the fame of Burton, 72, as a grasp of distinctive and quirky fantasy movies marked by visible results and gothic horror.
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the long-awaited return of some of the iconic characters in Tim Burton’s cinema,” stated competition director Alberto Barbera.
Barbera known as Burton “some of the fascinating auteurs of his time” and the sequel “a shocking swing of inventive creativeness and driving hallucinatory rhythm.”
Actor Michael Keaton reprises his authentic position, as do Catherine O’Hara and Winona Ryder.
The movie additionally stars Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci and Willem Dafoe.
Burton’s three-decade profession consists of movies akin to “Edward Scissorhands” (1990), “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare earlier than Christmas” (1993) and “Alice in Wonderland” (2010).
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