“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” has indeed been in development for decades, and luckily, the timing worked out so that the “Stranger Things” team didn’t need to make any sacrifices when the film finally came together. Production on the movie started in May 2023 and almost finished before last year’s SAG-AFTRA strike went into effect; Burton eventually wrapped in November, following a few more days of shooting once the labor stoppage was resolved. Meanwhile, “Stranger Things” season 5 — which was delayed due to a combination of the pandemic and the writers’ and actors’ strikes — didn’t begin filming until January 2024.
Interestingly, the original “Beetlejuice” looms large over the Duffer Brothers in the world of “Stranger Things”: The brothers have said that the show cannot go past 1988, when the first film was released in theaters, because then the show would have to reckon with its characters watching a movie starring a woman who looks suspiciously like Joyce Byers. They’ve referred to it as “the threshold we can’t cross,” because “once Winona is a superstar in the world, the show has to stop.” So, while we have plenty of questions about how “Stranger Things” season 5 will resolve, it seems clear there won’t be too massive a time jump. Season 4 was set in March of 1986, so despite the child actors aging into full-blown adults while still needing to pretend that they’re high school students, the Ghost with the Most seems to be getting the last laugh as he boxes in one of the most popular shows in Netflix history.
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