Tim Burton explains Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis’ absence Beetlejuice Sequel this week.
Although Burton brought back original stars Winona Ryder, Katharina O’Hara and Michael Keaton Beetlejuice Beetlejuicehis 2024 follow-up to the 1988 classic, with Baldwin and Davis not returning.
“I think this is the thing for me and I don’t want to just check any boxes,” Burton told people. “So even though they were such an amazing and integral part of the first project, I focused on other things.”
In the original film, Baldwin and Davis played Adam and Barbara Maitland, a recently deceased couple who are confined to a Connecticut house because they don’t get along with the new residents, the Dietz family. and: Charles (Jeffrey Jones) and his daughter Lydia (Lyder) and Charles’ wife Delia (O’Hara).
exist Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Jenna Ortega wowed audiences at Wednesday’s Venice Film Festival premiere as Lydia’s teenage daughter who accidentally reopens a door to the afterlife .
“Sequels like this are really about time,” Burton continued. “This is what I’m interested in, the three generations of mother, daughter, and granddaughter. And that [would] Be at the heart of it. I personally wouldn’t have been able to make this if it was 1989 or whatever.
Davis previously said entertainment tonight In April, she theorized that she wouldn’t come back because “ghosts don’t age.”
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice It will be released in theaters on September 6.
