"Tim Burton Reveals Why Alec Baldwin & Geena Davis Aren't in Beetlejuice Sequel!"

Tim Burton explains Alec Baldwin and Gina Davis's absence from Beetlejuice sequel director Tim Burton has finally addressed why Alec Baldwin and Gina Davis will not be reprising their roles in the highly anticipated sequel to his 1988 hit Beatle juu the sequel titled Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is set to hit theaters globally on September 6th and while original Stars Winona Ryder Katherine O'Hara and Michael Keaton are making a comeback bald and Davis will not be involved Burton speaking to People magazine explained that his decision was driven by a desire to explore new narrative directions rather than just fulfilling expectations of including every original cast member I didn't want to just tick boxes Burton said even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one I was focusing on something else he emphasized that his Creative Vision for the sequel led him to concentrate on a fresh storyline in the original 1988 film Baldwin and Davis played Adam and Barbara matland a recently deceased couple haunting their former home in Connecticut and causing trouble for its new inhabitants including Lydia Deets played by Winona Ryder and her family the sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice which premiered at the Venice Film Festival will introduce Jenna Ortega as Lydia's teenage daughter Ortega's character inadvertently opens a the portal to the afterlife triggering the return of Supernatural Mayhem Burton further elaborated that the Thematic focus of the sequel revolves around three generations of women mother daughter and granddaughter a sequel like this it really had to do with the time he explained that was my hook into it I couldn't have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever in a light-hearted comment Gina Davis shared her own theory about her absence joking that ghosts don't age which might explain why her character was not included fans will have to wait until the film's released to see how the new cast and storyline align with the Beloved original

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