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Tim Burton Explains Why Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis Aren't in the 'Beetlejuice' Sequel (Exclusive)

Tim Burton tells PEOPLE why Alec Baldwin and Geena Davis don't reprise their characters from 'Beetlejuice' in the new sequel, explaining that the story is 'focusing on something else.'

In the original movie, Baldwin, now 66, and Davis, now 68, played Adam and Barbara Maitland, Connecticut residents who become ghosts when they accidentally drive off a bridge while swerving to avoid hitting a dog. Unwilling to share the house with the Deetzes, the Maitlands turn to the lewd and crude demon Beetlejuice ( Michael Keaton) to help scare away the new residents. He continues that it was necessary for many years to have passed in order to make the movie he wanted, which finds Delia and Lydia, now living elsewhere, returning to the Connecticut home for the funeral of patriarch Charles.

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