Beetlejuice Beetlejuice star Micheal Keaton is prepared to take back his real name, so Michael Douglas higher be careful.

Many celebrities use stage names. They could be variations of the name they obtained at delivery or one thing utterly totally different, but I practically at all times discover myself shocked after I study that somebody whose name I’ve recognized my whole life seems to be a lie. That is perhaps a bit dramatic. I ought to get out extra. Some of you will have already recognized this (it’s by no means been a secret), however Michael Keaton was not born Michael Keaton; he was born Michael Douglas, and he’s wanting to take the name back. Perhaps some Highlander-type battle is so as.

When Michael Keaton began his profession within the Seventies, he was pressured to select a distinct name because the Screen Actors Guild doesn’t permit members to use one other member’s skilled name. Michael Douglas was already taken by… Michael Douglas, and there was additionally Mike Douglas, the talk-show host, in order that possibility was out as effectively. Keaton advised People that he might have truly turned to a cellphone e book to decide his stage name.

“I was looking through — I can’t remember if it was a phone book,” Keaton mentioned. “I must’ve gone, ‘I don’t know, let me think of something here.’ And I went, ‘Oh, that sounds reasonable.” After over forty years as Michael Keaton, the actor mentioned he’d like to use a hybrid of his delivery name and stage name: Micheal Keaton Douglas. He had wished to use the brand new moniker on Knox Goes Away, the thriller which he directed and stars in as a dementia-afflicted hitman, however forgot to make it occur. “I said, ‘Hey, just as a warning, my credit is going to be Michael Keaton Douglas.’ And it totally got away from me,” Keaton mentioned. “And I forgot to give them sufficient time to put it in and create that. But that can occur.“

Michael Keaton, or Michael Keaton Douglas, will subsequent be seen in Beetlejuice Beetljuice: “Beetlejuice is back! After an unexpected family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia’s life is turned upside down when her rebellious teenage daughter, Astrid, discovers the mysterious model of the town in the attic and the portal to the Afterlife is accidentally opened,” reads the official synopsis. “With trouble brewing in both realms, it’s only a matter of time until someone says Beetlejuice’s name three times and the mischievous demon returns to unleash his very own brand of mayhem.” The movie has been praised as a return to type for Tim Burton, with our personal Chris Bumbray calling it the director’s “most energetic, playful, and creative film in years.” You can try the remainder of Bumbray’s evaluation proper right here.

The movie can be launched in U.S. theaters on September sixth.