Why Aren’t Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis in ‘Beetlejuice 2’?

Tim Burton did not wish to “tick any boxes” by re-casting Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis in the Beetlejuice sequel.

The pair performed ghost couple Adam and Barbara Maitland from the unique 1988 flick, however the filmmaker didn’t really feel their presence was crucial for the story he wished to inform in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, which focuses on the Deetz household.

He advised People Magazine: “I think the thing was for me I didn’t want to just tick any boxes. So even though they were such an amazing integral part of the first one, I was focusing on something else.”

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Adam and Barbara summoned the titular trickster ghoul, who’s performed by Michael Keaton, after they drowned in a river and grew to become ghosts. They get Beetlejuice to scare away the brand new household that moved into their dwelling. Charlie and Delia Deetz can’t see them, however their death-obsessed daughter Lydia can.

Winona Ryder and Catherine O’Hara reprise their roles as Lydia and Delia, whereas Jenna Ortega performs the previous’s daughter Astrid Deetz.

Burton added: “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. And that [would] be the nucleus of it. I couldn’t have made this personally back in 1989 or whatever.”

Time has moved on with Lydia now a mom herself, and Ryder just lately admitted she initially struggled to see Lydia transfer past her gothic part to change into a father or mother.

She advised /Film: “I think certainly, I never pictured Lydia either having children or in any type of relationship. I just always thought she was just probably in her own world as she got older. Just sort of in the attic and happy, but alone.”

The Stranger Things actress added that as quickly as she began working with Jenna and Justin Theroux — who performs Lydia’s husband Rory — on the undertaking, she was in a position to get a greater grasp of this new model of the character.

She defined: “I think once we got there and once Jenna and I bonded and once Justin came on board … I mean, I think everyone who’s as old as I am now, we’ve all been in those things where you’re just like, ‘What was I thinking, in terms of the relationship I have?’”

“But I don’t know with young Lydia, I don’t think she would ever have expected to be in front of a camera.”

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice opens in theaters on September 6.