Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Sequel Unveils Official Title and New Poster: ‘The Wait Is Almost Over’

One of the most anticipated movie sequels this year finally has a title.

Warner Bros. Pictures on Thursday shared a new poster for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice to x, revealing the sequel to Tim Burton’s 1988 classic will simply double down on its original title. The poster itself shows a pair of hands holding a roll of white ribbon with numbers on it. In the center of the poster is the green text “09,06,24”, indicating the film’s release date of September 6.

“Dare to say it again,” the company wrote alongside the poster.

New movie title, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, is a reference to its title character. Michael Keaton portrayed Beetlejuice in the original 1988 film as a green-haired, boisterous ghost from the underworld who appears if someone says his name three times in a row. Keaton (72) is again involved in the sequel, as well as Winona Ryder, who will reprise her role as Lydia Deetz, and Catherine O’Hara, who played Delia Deetz.

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Beetlejuice Beetlejuice poster.

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Director Burton, 65, previously confirmed that filming had wrapped in an Instagram post he shared in November. Filming on the film began in London in May 2023 and was delayed several months following the Screen Actors Guild strike in July.

“Just finished shooting Beetlejuice,” Burton wrote on Instagram on Nov. 30, alongside a photo of him sitting on a couch on the movie set. “Thanks to everyone who participated.”

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Michael Keaton and Tim Burton on the set of the 1988 film Beetlejuice.

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Before SAG-AFTRA reached an agreement to end the strike in November, Burton told The Independent in a September interview that the film was “99 percent done.” He also said then that for the sequel he “tried to strip everything and return to the basics of working with good people and actors and puppets”.

“It was like going back to why I loved making movies,” he told the news outlet.

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Michael Keaton (center) in Beetlejuice.

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Monica Bellucci, who is dating Burton, will also appear in the film alongside Justin Theroux, Willem Dafoe and Wednesdayis Jenna Ortega.

When O’Hara, 69, recently spoke with PEOPLE about the film, she said she has “a little two-way moment with Michael as Beetlejuice” in the upcoming film.

“I was in group scenes with Michael in the first movie, but in this one I had an actual moment where it was just the two of us,” she said. “And it was so crazy and exciting, really being face to face with Beetlejuice.”

“It looks the same,” he jokes of Keaton’s character. “Beetlejuice has aged very well.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice arrives in theaters on September 6.

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