Beetlejuice Beetlejuice saw the Deetz family return to Winter River and reunite with Michael Keaton’s illustrious figure in the striped suit. However, depending on your viewpoint, the sequel might have missed one key detail linking it to Tim Burton’s cult classic. Beetlejuice Beetlejuice comes 36 years after the original, and the ambitious sequel sets out to answer some of the most-anticipated questions in the franchise — such as providing conclusive answers to Betelgeuse’s origin story. However, the movie generated a whole host of new queries in the process, many of which were left ambiguous and pertained to the new characters in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.