Will Jeffrey Jones seem in Tim Burton‘s vastly anticipated Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice?
That’s the query on the thoughts of eagle-eyed followers of the anticipated Warner Bros. movie’s trailer, who observed a glimpse of the actor on a gravestone in a funeral scene. However a rep for Jones confirms to The Hollywood Reporter that the actor doesn’t seem in Beetlejuice Beetlejuice.
The funeral is attended by Catherine O’Hara (enjoying Delia Deetz, second spouse of Jones’ Charles Deetz within the unique movie), Winona Ryder (Lydia Deetz, Charles’ daughter along with his first, deceased spouse) and Jenna Ortega (a newcomer to the franchise, who performs Astrid Deetz, Lydia’s teenage daughter).
In Beetlejuice, Charles is a big-city actual property developer who buys a Connecticut residence after the earlier homeowners — the Maitlands, performed by Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis — die in a automobile accident.
The Maitlands quickly be taught they’re ghosts and watch in horror as Delia proceeds to show their quaint farmhouse right into a gaudy, postmodern funhouse.
Charles’ demise within the sequel didn’t essentially rule out his participation within the sequel, because the movie follows the Maitlands’ misadventures of the afterlife.
A gifted bodily comic, Jones, 77, stole scenes in a string of movies all through the Eighties, most notably enjoying Emperor Joseph II in 1984’s Amadeus and Ed Rooney, the principal in 1986’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off. Working with Burton, he adopted Beetlejuice with performances in 1994’s Ed Wooden and 1999’s Sleepy Hole.
He labored far much less within the years following a 2003 plea of no contest to hiring a 14-year-old boy to pose bare for pictures, for which he was sentenced to 5 years probation and ordered to register as a intercourse offender.
However Jones did play real-life newspaperman A.W. Merrick on HBO’s Deadwood all through the present’s run from 2004 to 2006. He reprised the function for Deadwood: The Film in 2019 — however amid a extra delicate, post-#MeToo local weather, his presence within the narrative was drastically lowered.