Why Aren’t the Maitlands In Beetlejuice 2?

When you’re a fan of the 1989 OG film Beetlejuice, you is perhaps questioning the place two major characters are within the sequel. The Maitlands don’t seem within the new sequel Beetlejuice Beetlejuice and the reason being fairly intentional

In Beetlejuice, Adam (Alec Baldwin) and Barbara Maitland (Geena Davis) die after avoiding a canine whereas driving. The characters are certain to their home for 125 years and a brand new household—the Deetzes—enters their residence. The Maitlands attempt to scare away Lydia (Winona Ryder), Charles (Jeffrey Jones), and Delia Deetz (Catherine O’Hara) with regular scary techniques. Nonetheless, they don’t work and so they name on the lewd satan Betelgeuse to assist them hang-out the household away. Issues backfire and the Maitlands and the Deetzes staff as much as eliminate Beetlejuice after they uncover the horrors that occur when he’s summoned. The film ends with the households residing in concord with all of the pleased haunts.

The household is talked about a few instances in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, nonetheless they don’t seem in any respect. Lydia explains to her daughter Astrid (Jenna Ortega) that the Maitlands don’t hang-out the Deetz residence anymore as a result of they crossed over to the afterlife after discovering a loophole. So why aren’t they within the film in any respect? Did it must do with Alec Baldwin’s trial?

Why aren’t the Maitlands in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?

Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis didn’t return to play Adam and Barbara Maitland as a result of director Tim Burton already had a imaginative and prescient for the sequel that didn’t contain their characters. “I believe the factor was for me I didn’t wish to simply tick any containers,” he advised Individuals. “So regardless that they had been such an incredible integral a part of the primary one, I used to be specializing in one thing else.”

“A sequel like this, it actually needed to do with the time,” Burton continued, including that Lydia, Astrid, and Delia’s relationship was the crux of the movie. “That was my hook into it, the three generations of mom, daughter, granddaughter. And that [would] be the nucleus of it. I couldn’t have made this personally again in 1989 or no matter.”

Geena Davis beforehand addressed rumors that she was returning to the sequel to Leisure Tonight in April. “No, I’m not. I’m not within the remake,” she advised the publication. “Oh, you had been anticipating that I’d be? Yeah, no, you already know what? As a result of my concept is that ghosts don’t age… Not that I’ve.”