Thirty-six years later, American actor Michael Keaton also returns at the age of 72, in the title role of the grimacing demon.
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A world premiere for the Venice Film Festival. Beetlejuice Beetlejuicethe sequel to Tim Burton’s iconic 1988 film, will open the 81st Venice Film Festival, which will run from August 28 to September 8, the festival announced on Tuesday, July 2.
It was with the first version of the film that Tim Burton saw his career take off. Thirty-six years later, he has once again chosen the American actor Michael Keaton, 72, to reprise the title role of the grimacing demon. He will be accompanied, among others, by Winona Ryder (Stranger Things) and Willem Dafoe.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice brand “the long-awaited return of one of the most iconic characters in Tim Burton’s cinema”for his part, welcomed the artistic director of the Mostra, the Italian Alberto Barbera, reappointed in May for two years at the head of the oldest film festival.
In the first part, which won an Oscar for best makeup, two recently deceased newlyweds become ghosts haunting their old house and call on a “bio-exorcist”, the famous Beetlejuice, to scare off its new occupants.
In the new opus presented in Venice, the character of Beetlejuice accidentally returns to upset the lives of the occupants of the house by unleashing his chaos. After its world premiere at the Venice festival, the film is scheduled to be released in cinemas on September 11.
