Photo: Amy Sussman/WireImage, GEFFEN FILM/WARNER BROTHERS/AlamyJenna Ortegamay soon take on another iconicTim Burtonrole.On Thursday,multiple outletsreportedthat Ortega, 20, isin talks to starin Warner Bros.’s upcomingBeetlejuicesequel.According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Scream VIactress Ortega’s potential role in the film would see her play the daughter ofWinona Ryder’s Lydia, one of the main characters in the original 1988 movie.Ryder, now 51, costarred alongsideAlec Baldwin,Geena Davis, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glenn Shadix andMichael KeatoninBeetlejuice, which follows a malicious spirit named Beetlejuice (Keaton) who helps a recently deceased couple drive out an unbearable family who moved into their home.Ortega’s casting would reportedly reunite her withWednesdaydirector Burton, 64, who the outlet reported is expected to return for theBeetlejuicefollow-up.Warner Brothers /Courtesy Everett CollectionNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Keaton, 71, is also expected to return in the film as Beetlejuice, with production expecting to start in London in either May or June, according toTHR, which cited sources.Reps for Ortega and Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.Efforts to make a sequel to the original 1988Beetlejuicedate back at least a decade. In 2011,Deadlinereported that producers David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith had signed with Warner Bros. and aimed to create aBeetlejuicefollow-up. Director Burton, as well as Keaton and Ryder, eachexpressed interestinmaking a sequelat different times throughout the 2010s.Dimitrios Kambouris/GettyPlans for a sequel grew last year when it wasreportedthatBrad Pitt’s production company Plan B had boarded a second installment.Ortega’s potential casting in the role makes a neat tie-in with her other Burton role in Netflix’s hitWednesday.Christina Ricci, who originated the role of Wednesday Addams on the big screen in 1991’sThe Addams Family, oncecostarred with Ryderin the 1990 movieMermaids.RELATED VIDEO:Scream VICast Gush Over ‘Mama Hen’ Courteney Cox: ‘She Checks on Us’ and ‘It’s Genuine’In October, Davis, 67, told PEOPLE that while she had yet to be contacted about returning for a sequel, she says she “would of course like to revisit” that world again.“I want to play every character I’ve ever played again,” Davis said at the time.There is one issue, however, with revisiting her character of Barbara Maitland: She’s a ghost, along with her husband, Adam (Baldwin). “I have a feeling that ghosts don’t age,” she told PEOPLE. “How would they explain that they’re older?”
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Jenna Ortegamay soon take on another iconicTim Burtonrole.On Thursday,multiple outletsreportedthat Ortega, 20, isin talks to starin Warner Bros.’s upcomingBeetlejuicesequel.According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Scream VIactress Ortega’s potential role in the film would see her play the daughter ofWinona Ryder’s Lydia, one of the main characters in the original 1988 movie.Ryder, now 51, costarred alongsideAlec Baldwin,Geena Davis, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glenn Shadix andMichael KeatoninBeetlejuice, which follows a malicious spirit named Beetlejuice (Keaton) who helps a recently deceased couple drive out an unbearable family who moved into their home.Ortega’s casting would reportedly reunite her withWednesdaydirector Burton, 64, who the outlet reported is expected to return for theBeetlejuicefollow-up.Warner Brothers /Courtesy Everett CollectionNever miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.Keaton, 71, is also expected to return in the film as Beetlejuice, with production expecting to start in London in either May or June, according toTHR, which cited sources.Reps for Ortega and Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.Efforts to make a sequel to the original 1988Beetlejuicedate back at least a decade. In 2011,Deadlinereported that producers David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith had signed with Warner Bros. and aimed to create aBeetlejuicefollow-up. Director Burton, as well as Keaton and Ryder, eachexpressed interestinmaking a sequelat different times throughout the 2010s.Dimitrios Kambouris/GettyPlans for a sequel grew last year when it wasreportedthatBrad Pitt’s production company Plan B had boarded a second installment.Ortega’s potential casting in the role makes a neat tie-in with her other Burton role in Netflix’s hitWednesday.Christina Ricci, who originated the role of Wednesday Addams on the big screen in 1991’sThe Addams Family, oncecostarred with Ryderin the 1990 movieMermaids.RELATED VIDEO:Scream VICast Gush Over ‘Mama Hen’ Courteney Cox: ‘She Checks on Us’ and ‘It’s Genuine’In October, Davis, 67, told PEOPLE that while she had yet to be contacted about returning for a sequel, she says she “would of course like to revisit” that world again.“I want to play every character I’ve ever played again,” Davis said at the time.There is one issue, however, with revisiting her character of Barbara Maitland: She’s a ghost, along with her husband, Adam (Baldwin). “I have a feeling that ghosts don’t age,” she told PEOPLE. “How would they explain that they’re older?”
Jenna Ortegamay soon take on another iconicTim Burtonrole.
On Thursday,multiple outletsreportedthat Ortega, 20, isin talks to starin Warner Bros.’s upcomingBeetlejuicesequel.
According toThe Hollywood Reporter,Scream VIactress Ortega’s potential role in the film would see her play the daughter ofWinona Ryder’s Lydia, one of the main characters in the original 1988 movie.
Ryder, now 51, costarred alongsideAlec Baldwin,Geena Davis, Catherine O’Hara, Jeffrey Jones, Glenn Shadix andMichael KeatoninBeetlejuice, which follows a malicious spirit named Beetlejuice (Keaton) who helps a recently deceased couple drive out an unbearable family who moved into their home.
Ortega’s casting would reportedly reunite her withWednesdaydirector Burton, 64, who the outlet reported is expected to return for theBeetlejuicefollow-up.
Warner Brothers /Courtesy Everett Collection
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free daily newsletterto stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer, from juicy celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.
Keaton, 71, is also expected to return in the film as Beetlejuice, with production expecting to start in London in either May or June, according toTHR, which cited sources.
Reps for Ortega and Warner Bros. did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Efforts to make a sequel to the original 1988Beetlejuicedate back at least a decade. In 2011,Deadlinereported that producers David Katzenberg and Seth Grahame-Smith had signed with Warner Bros. and aimed to create aBeetlejuicefollow-up. Director Burton, as well as Keaton and Ryder, eachexpressed interestinmaking a sequelat different times throughout the 2010s.
Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty
Plans for a sequel grew last year when it wasreportedthatBrad Pitt’s production company Plan B had boarded a second installment.
Ortega’s potential casting in the role makes a neat tie-in with her other Burton role in Netflix’s hitWednesday.Christina Ricci, who originated the role of Wednesday Addams on the big screen in 1991’sThe Addams Family, oncecostarred with Ryderin the 1990 movieMermaids.
RELATED VIDEO:Scream VICast Gush Over ‘Mama Hen’ Courteney Cox: ‘She Checks on Us’ and ‘It’s Genuine’
In October, Davis, 67, told PEOPLE that while she had yet to be contacted about returning for a sequel, she says she “would of course like to revisit” that world again.
“I want to play every character I’ve ever played again,” Davis said at the time.
There is one issue, however, with revisiting her character of Barbara Maitland: She’s a ghost, along with her husband, Adam (Baldwin). “I have a feeling that ghosts don’t age,” she told PEOPLE. “How would they explain that they’re older?”
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