Jenna Ortega has been unofficially anointed Hollywood’s new goth queen. Per the Hollywood Reporter, the Wednesday star is circling a job in Beetlejuice 2, directed by Tim Burton.
Burton directed the unique Beetlejuice in 1988, which starred Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Jeffrey Jordan, Catherine O’Hara, Winona Ryder, and Michael Keaton because the titular ghoul who seems while you say his title thrice. The movie made $80 million on a $15 million price range on the field workplace and shortly turned a cult hit. A rumored sequel has been in improvement for an eternity, however Burton’s involvement was at all times in query. In response to THR, although, each Burton and Keaton are actually planning to return for the sequel.
If forged, Ortega would play the daughter of Ryder’s former goth teen Lydia. Ortega, after all, is not any stranger to franchises or to horror comedy. She presently stars in Scream VI, the highly-anticipated newest chapter within the reboot of the 90s slasher sequence, and broke massive final fall as a brand new iteration of one other 90s period macabre teen: Wednesday Addams, in Netflix’s smash hit sequence Wednesday.
Additionally directed by Burton, Wednesday noticed Ortega step into her first main main position, and the younger star actually made the half her personal. “I don’t assume I’ve ever needed to put my foot down on a set in a approach that I needed to on Wednesday,” she just lately advised Dax Shepard whereas showing on his podcast Armchair Skilled. “All the pieces that she does, all the pieces that I needed to play, didn’t make sense for her character in any respect.”
Mockingly, the very individuals Ortega says she tussled with are straight concerned within the Beetlejuice sequel as properly. Wednesday showrunners Alfred Gough and Miles Millar have been tapped to jot down Beetlejuice 2—which may doubtlessly make for an ungainly reunion. “There was occasions on that set the place I even turned virtually unprofessional in a way, the place I simply began altering strains.” Ortega advised Shepard. “The script supervisor thought that, like, I used to be going with one thing, after which I must sit down with the writers, and they’d be like, ‘Wait, what occurred to the scene?’ And I must undergo and clarify why I couldn’t do sure issues.”
Regardless of all this, Ortega says she had a beautiful expertise working with Burton, a minimum of, who served as an govt producer on Wednesday and directed 4 of its eight episodes. “It’s been fairly an insane expertise,” Ortega advised The Hollywood Reporter. “I’ve been fortunate sufficient to get the chance to work with an iconic director who simply so occurs to be one of many sweetest administrators I’ve labored with, and in addition essentially the most detail-oriented.”
Subsequent up for Ortega is internet hosting Saturday Night time Dwell on Saturday, March eleventh. So earlier than being immersed on the planet of one other ’90s-era goth teen, Ortega will get to point out world her sillier aspect. (Perhaps.)
