Beetlejuice sequel has a new title that comes dangerously close to summoning The Ghost With The Most

After a long delay between the last two days of filming (because of the Hollywood strikes), Beetlejuice 2 is finally set to come out, and not only does it have an official release date, but it has a new official title. Unfortunately, the title is not Beetlejuice Goes Hawaiian, which was the original title pitched for a failed attempt to make a sequel in 1990. The new title is still fun, though, with the official Beetlejuice Instagram revealing that it is—what else?—Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.

That means, if they make a third movie, it’ll be called… something we can’t say without being terrorized by a certain horrible undead fiend in a striped suit who we’d rather not get involved with. We don’t know much about Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, other than that it’s not about the Deetz family moving to Hawaii and bringing Michael Keaton’s Betelgeuse along with for some reason, but we do know that it will feature Keaton, Winona Ryder, and Catherine O’Hara reprising their roles from the first movie (don’t Google too many of the other stars of the first movie). They’ll be joined by Jenna Ortega, Monica Bellucci, and Willem Dafoe, with Ortega apparently playing the daughter of Ryder’s Lydia Deetz.

Tim Burton, who worked with Ortega on Netflix’s Wednesday and directed the original Beetlejuice, directed this one as well. As confirmed in that same Instagram post, it’ll be in theaters on September 6 of this year, but—not counting the headline—we’ve said his name nine times, which means we summoned him, sent him away, and then summoned him again, so now we have to send him away before he turns our weird art into snakes and tries to marry us: Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse, Betelgeuse!