Tim Burton didn't summon Alec Baldwin and Gina Davis to reprise their ghostly roles for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the legendary director is explaining why I think the thing was for me I didn't want to just take any boxes Burton 66 told people in an interview published on Wednesday August 29th so even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one I was focusing on something else Davis 68 and Baldwin 66 starred in the 198 at horror comedy as recently deceased couple Adam and Barbara matland who died when they accidentally drove off a bridge while swerving to avoid hitting a dog now in the afterlife the duo find themselves at odds with the Deets family Lydia Winona Ryder deia Katherine O'Hara and Charles Jeffrey Jones after they move into the Connecticut home in which the maand used to live in an attempt to reclaim their space Adam and Barbara summoned Beetlejuice Michael Keaton to haunt the house until the detas move out for the 2024 sequel which hits theaters on Friday September 6th Burton teamed back up with a handful of the original cast including Katon Ryder and O'Hara along with new faces Jenna Ortega William defo and Justin thorough Davis and Baldwin however do not make appearances Burton shared that it was important for him to focus on the Deets women after the loss of their patriarch Charles 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 he said noting that decades needed to go by an order to make this sequel work and that would be the nucleus of it I couldn't have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever