It’s showtime: The long-awaited sequel to 1988’s Beetlejuice is about to land on screens, and the primary teaser is as eerie and eccentric (and unusual and weird) as we may’ve hoped for. Launched on March 21, it opens with a shot of franchise newcomer Jenna Ortega biking swiftly previous Miss Shannon’s College for Ladies to the tune of—what else?—a kids’s choir singing “Day-O.” Cue glimpses of Ortega standing beside returning favorites Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara; and the Wednesday star getting into the attic and uncovering the miniature mannequin of Winter River. It quickly splits open and, to Ryder’s horror, Michael Keaton’s scraggly-haired, deathly pale, striped-suit-wearing Beetlejuice emerges from inside it. “The juice is unfastened,” he says, grinning.

Titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the forthcoming Tim Burton-directed launch is poised to hit cinemas on September 6, 2024. The log line reads: “After an surprising household tragedy, three generations of the Deetz household return residence to Winter River. Nonetheless haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned the other way up when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious mannequin of the city within the attic and the portal to the afterlife is by accident opened. With hassle brewing in each realms, it’s solely a matter of time till somebody says Beetlejuice’s identify 3 times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very personal model of mayhem.”

Alongside Keaton, O’Hara and Ryder are, in fact, reprising their authentic roles as Delia and Lydia Deetz, whereas Ortega takes the a part of the latter’s willful offspring. They’ll be joined by Monica Bellucci—as Beetlejuice’s spouse, no much less—and Willem Dafoe as a “police officer within the afterlife and former B-movie motion star,” in addition to Justin Theroux, Recreation of Thrones’s Burn Gorman, and Home of the Dragon’s Arthur Conti. In the meantime, the screenplay comes courtesy of Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, the creators of Wednesday.

It’s taken an age to get the gang again collectively—the follow-up movie has lengthy been gestating, and after manufacturing lastly started, it was paused over the summer season of 2023 because of the SAG-AFTRA strike. Nonetheless, solely two extra days of filming remained, which means it may wrap shortly after work resumed.