While franchise-wise it only
boasts three completed movies, two completed animated series and a plethora of
videogames, the “Ghostbusters” property created by Harold Ramis and Dan Ackroyd
for Columbia Pictures (now under Sony alongside exclusive production company
Ghost Corps) maintains its strong grip on the fandom. Not even the divisively disastrous
release of the 2016 cinematic reboot with an all-female lead cast could dampen
anticipation for what might come next. The “Ghostbusters 2020” project by Jason
Reitman, son of Ivan the director of the original two films, has been the
latest subject of interest for franchise fans. But that was not the official
title, as the latest reveal points out.
Comic Book Resources tells us that the in-production fourth “Ghostbusters”
film, which was suffixed with its planned release year when first announced,
finally received its true title upon the advance notice of a preliminary
trailer with film authorities in the UK. According to information given to the
British Board of Film Classification, the first trailer for this movie,
clocking 2 minutes and 48 seconds, has been rated for an “age 12 and up”
audience by UK screening standards. The title will also be “Ghostbusters:
Afterlife.”
This is welcome news for fans of
the quirky supernatural movie franchise, with the knowledge that “Ghostbusters:
Afterlife” actually finished its principal photography only last month. Director
Jason Reitman is also writing the story with Gil Kenan, with a plot alleged to
connect directly with the first two “Ghostbusters” films by Ivan Reitman, if
taking place several real-time decades after the second movie which premiered
in 1989. The “Afterlife” tagline for this installment was hinted at as early as
in October, from an entertainment news website from Italy. Although the British
film board also follows up on that, neither the production crew nor Sony has
offered official confirmation for it.
It is already known that most of the
remaining principal cast of the original “Ghostbusters” films will reprise
their original roles for “Afterlife,” even if no longer in top billing. Bill “Peter”
Murray, Dan “Ray” Ackroyd, Ernie “Winston” Hudson, Annie “Janine” Potts and
Sigourney “Dana” Weaver are all slated to return, with only the retired Rick
Moranitz and the late Harold Ramis (d.2014) not returning. The new lead cast is
comprised of McKenna Grace (“Annabelle Comes Home”), Finn Wolfhard (“Stranger
Things”), Carrie Coon (“Fargo”) and Paul Rudd (MCU’s “Ant-Man”). “Ghostbusters:
Afterlife” will premiere July 2020.
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