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Tim Burton Reveals Alec Baldwin And Geena Davis Didn’t Join As Returning Stars In Beetlejuice 2 For THIS Reason
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is already a hit ahead of its theatrical release as it got an immense amount of applause at the Venice Film Festival where it premiered for the first time. Many cast members including Winona Ryder, Michael Keaton, and Catherina O’Hara have returned to reprise their characters from the 1988 OG movie Beetlejuice. However, Tim Burton the director of both the films didn’t bring back Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis’ characters Adam Maitland and Barbara Maitland in the sequel for a reason.
In a recent conversation, Tim openly talked about why he chose to keep Alec and Geena out of the Beetlejuice sequel. Not only them, but Jeffery Jones also didn’t return to reprise his role as Charles Deetz. Baldwin and Davis played the deceased couple in the OG movie who couldn’t leave their house and tormented the new family – the Deetz family who moved in their place.
In a recent conversation, Tim openly talked about why he chose to keep Alec and Geena out of the Beetlejuice sequel. Not only them, but Jeffery Jones also didn’t return to reprise his role as Charles Deetz. Baldwin and Davis played the deceased couple in the OG movie who couldn’t leave their house and tormented the new family – the Deetz family who moved in their place.
The Deetz family – Charles Deetz (Jones), Delia Jones (Catherine O’Hara), and their daughter, Lydia Jones (Winona Ryder) were seen in the Beetlejuice movie. Michael Keaton played Beetlejuice the Spirit in the 1988 horror-comedy and is again reprising his role in the sequel. Now, why Alec and Geena were not included in Beetlejuice 2, Tim Burton revealed it in an interview with People.
He said, “I think the thing was for me I didn’t want to just tick any boxes. So even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one, I was focusing on something else.” Tim further continued, “A sequel like this, it really had to do with the time. That was my hook into it, the three generations of mother, daughter, granddaughter. And that [would] be the nucleus of it. I couldn’t have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever.”
Beetlejuice 2 focuses on Lydia’s family and her relationship with her rebellious daughter, Astrid (Jenna Ortega). As Delia and Lydia return to Winter River following a tragedy, the plot revolves around their story. The sequel will also see Justin Theroux playing Lydia’s fiance Rory. Along with them, Monica Belluci is joining the cast as Beetlejuice’s ex-wife Delores and William Dafoe is going to play a ghost detective, Wolf Jackson.
A few months back, when Geena Davis was asked whether she would be returning as Barbara Maitland or not, the actress told Entertainment Tonight that she wasn’t. Davis shared, “Oh, you were expecting that I would be? Yeah, no, you know what? Because my theory is that ghosts don’t age. Not that I have. Our characters were stuck the way they looked when they died forever, so it’s been a while. It’s been a minute.”
Well, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is scheduled to be released on September 6, 2024. But let us know your thoughts regarding Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin not returning for the sequel.
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“Unbelievable Time”: Kangana Ranaut’s ‘Emergency’ Stuck With Censor Board
Kangana Ranaut said on Friday that her film ‘Emergency’, where she essays the role of former Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, is still stuck with the film certification board contrary to rumours that it has been cleared for release.
The actor, who is also a first-time MP, claimed that she and the members of the Central Board of Film Certification or CBFC have been receiving threats.
“There are rumours that our film ‘Emergency’ has got a censor certificate. It is not true. In fact, our film was cleared earlier but its certification has been stopped because of several threats,” Ms Ranaut said in a video message posted on X.
“People of the censor board are also getting a lot of threats. There is pressure on us to not show the assassination of Mrs Gandhi, Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale and the Punjab riots. I don’t know what we will show then, that there is a blackout in the film? This is unbelievable time for me and I am very sorry for this state of things in this country,” the actor lamented.
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— Kangana Ranaut (@KanganaTeam) August 30, 2024
The movie was scheduled to release on September 6.
Earlier today, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) sent a legal notice to the CBFC seeking to prevent the release of Ms Ranaut’s film, claiming it may “incite communal tensions” and “spread misinformation”.
“Such depictions are not only misleading but also deeply offensive and damaging to the social fabric of Punjab and the entire nation. It is apparent that Ranaut has chosen the subject of the Emergency not to make a genuine political or historical statement against Congress, but rather to target the Sikh community,” the notice sent on August 27 claimed.
It claimed the movie portrays the Sikh community in an “unjust and negative light”.
On Tuesday, the actor reached out to the police for help after a video of a group of men threatening her over the release of her next film ‘Emergency’ surfaced on social media.
Several organisations, including the Shiromani Gurdwara Parbandhak Committee have demanded a ban on the release of the film, claiming it spreads an “anti-Sikh” narrative, and misrepresents Sikhs as “separatists”.