Summary

• New footage from Beetlejuice 2 includes a scene of Jenna Ortega running from sandworms on Saturn.
• The extended teaser at CinemaCon reveals Monica Bellucci's role and plot details, keeping fans intrigued.
• Ortega's sandworm scenes in Beetlejuice 2 will inevitably raise comparisons with Dune 2, setting up for viral discussions.

CinemaCon’s extended teaser trailer for Beetlejuice 2 reveals the upcoming movie’s most exciting scene for Jenna Ortega, which has viral potential based on another 2024 Warner Bros. movie. The first trailer for Beetlejuice Beetlejuice gave a closer look at Jenna Ortega’s new character, who joins Beetlejuice’s Deetz family tree as Astrid, the teenage daughter of Winona Ryder’s Lydia. In the teaser released to the public, Ortega’s Astrid is seen attending the funeral of her grandfather, Charles, before stumbling upon Adam and Barbara Maitland’s town model in the attic, which opens a portal to the afterlife and sets up the return of Michael Keaton’s titular character.

Only a few weeks after the initial teaser was released, extended footage of Beetlejuice 2’s trailer was shown at CinemaCon on April 9. The exclusive new scenes included a first look at Monica Bellucci, who plays the deceased wife of Michael Keaton’s Beetlejuice, a teased sequence of Beetlejuice showing Rory his “scary face,” as well as the confirmation that Lydia Deetz is the character who summons Beetlejuice in the sequel. Additionally, the footage revealed an exciting scene with Jenna Ortega’s Astrid outside the realm of the living, which brings back an iconic figure from the original movie.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will be released in theaters on September 6, 2024.

New Beetlejuice 2 Footage Confirms Jenna Ortega Will Have A Scene With Sandworms

Astrid runs from a sandworm in Beetlejuice 2's extended trailer

According to ComicBookMovie.com, the Beetlejuice 2 footage at CinemaCon also included a brief clip of Jenna Ortega’s character being chased by a sandworm in Beetlejuice’s Saturn area. This location was memorably traveled to by the recently-deceased Adam Maitland when he tried walking out of the front door in the original movie, and again later when Keaton’s character transported Barbara there during Beetlejuice’s climactic ending. Based on the latest teaser, Saturn and the sandworms are back, with Astrid being the franchise’s first living character to be seen chased by them.

Of course, the confirmation that Astrid will be chased by sandworms in Beetlejuice 2's story begs the question of how she is transported to Saturn and ends up there alone in the first place. It had seemed as if the area inhabited by the sandworms was exclusive to the dead, as the afterlife newspaper that Beetlejuice read in the 1988 movie featured an article about increased sandworm attacks. This either suggests that Astrid herself may die in Beetlejuice 2 or – more likely – that she somehow jumps through the afterlife portal in the Winter River house’s attic by herself, sending her into the dangerous unknown terrain of the afterlife’s realm.

Based on the latest teaser, Saturn and the sandworms are back, with Astrid being the franchise’s first living character to be seen chased by them.

Dune 2's Viral Sandworm Moments Will Cause Huge Comparisons For Jenna Ortega In Beetlejuice 2

Two Warner Bros. franchise movies have big sandworm scenes in 2024 with major stars

Beetlejuice 2 bringing back the original movie’s sandworms couldn’t have come at a better time, as Dune: Part Two's scenes with the sandworms on Arrakis will make the films’ comparisons inevitable this year. Oddly, two huge Warner Bros. sequel movies in 2024 feature sandworms and vast desert areas, so the internet will inevitably be filled with comparisons between the two franchise’s sandworm scenes. Furthermore, considering the sandworm scenes include two of Hollywood's most popular young actors, Timothée Chalamet and Jenna Ortega, jokes about comparing their characters and sequences are apt to go viral once Beetlejuice 2 premieres in September.

Source: ComicBookMovie.com