In the originalBeetlejuice,Adam and Barbara Maitland are the protagonists.

AlthoughAlec Baldwin only appears in one scene inGlengarry Glen Ross, it is the film’s most memorable moment.

Betelgeuse’s job inBeetlejuice Beetlejuicecame with some benefits, such as a large employee base of Shrinkers.

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Instead, Burton wasn’t concerned with bringing back everything from the original film.

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.

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And that [would] be the nucleus of it.

I couldn’t have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is the sequel to the original Tim Burton classic that starred Michael Keaton and Wynona Rider in a horror-comedy that involved ghosts trying to scare off new homebuyers from taking their house. The sequel brings back Michael Keaton as the hilarious and sleazy ghost with selfish intentions, now joined by Jenna Ortega in a new role.

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