Beetlejuice 2: Will the ending herald a sequel for Tim Burton and Jenna Ortega? (spoiler)

Warning – This article contains minor spoilers for “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” to the extent that it goes back to certain elements of its story and in particular its ending. So please go ahead if you haven’t seen it yet.

In 1988, Tim Burton introduced us to Beetlejuice: A Demon Who Calls Himself “The Bio-Exorcist” whose name should not be pronounced three times, otherwise it will appear and sow chaos. It wasn’t his first feature film (that was Pee Wee Big Adventure in 1985), but it was the one that really exposed him to the general public, and he signed on to the first Batman soon after.

A trip to Gotham City that also came at the expense of the Beetlejuice sequel. under the name Beetlejuice goes HawaiianThe project was quickly picked up by Warner, who commissioned the script and was to star Michael Keaton and Winona Ryder. Until the filmmaker got fed up and decided to go see Bruce Wayne if he wasn’t there.

But just like Winona Ryder at the beginning of the movie that hit our theaters on 9/11, Beetlejuice never stopped chasing her. Especially since 2011, where the question of continuation was again on the table. to not really go forward. Then in 2019, it fell by the wayside. And resurrected four years later, after hitting the world screens in 2024, bypassing the Venice festival where it opened.

The feature film is called Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Which in the beginning implies the possibility of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which takes a long time to pronounce at the box office, but makes sense, only to complete the loop that opened in 1988. And in the end he does not close the door, contrary to the course.

If Lydia (Winona Ryder) once again manages to escape her marriage to the demon, which bursts like a bubble when she says his name three times again, the final scene, with this dream turning into a (double) nightmare, implies that she is not done with Beetlejuice. neither do we?

“If there’s as much time as between the first two movies, I’ll be over 100 years old, so I doubt it.”Tim Burton replied The Hollywood Reporter on the subject. Without denying the importance of this gap in relation to the plot of this sequel.

“If it’s as long as the time between the first two movies, I’ll be over 100”

“Old age makes us think about what’s going on in life. It started as a cool teenager. Then there’s the question of relationships… do you have kids? What are they like? What do you like? How are you? This is what I know and what I’ve experienced, so I found it more urgent to do this than in 1989.

For now, the third episode seems compromised. But the success of this film (which has already earned XXX million dollars worldwide) can change the situation, and the case of Beetlejuice clearly showed that you should never say never, for several decades.

Especially since something remains unresolved with Astrid’s father (Jenna Ortega), and not only on a psychoanalytical level. And we’re dying to find out what Beyond, teased so much in this opus, looks like. right?