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Raymond Stantz, who the trailer reveals still runs his shop, Ray’s Occult Books, from Ghostbusters II. Reitman was a bit more forthcoming about the return of Dr. In the '84 film, she was in love with him and clearly she still has a connection to him and that she was attempting to take care of him in his older age.” Is Janine the mother of Carrie Coon’s character? All Reitman would offer is that “we get the sense that Janine is still connected to Egon Spengler.

While there are hints and glimpses of the other original human characters in the new trailer, only Dan Aykroyd’s Ray Stantz and Annie Potts’ Janine Melnitz show up in the present during the trailer. “And they look completely f******g different from each other.” If you think about the ghosts that were in the original, and there was only a few,” Reitman recalled, citing Slimer, the librarian, the cabbie and a few others as examples. “Identifying the look and feel of Ghostbusters ghosts is actually really tricky. That, however, got Reitman and Kenan to do a deep-dive on what makes the ghouls in a Ghostbusters film distinct. And a lot of this film for me was the thrill of what it would be like to discover all these things in your home.”īut this wouldn’t be a Ghostbusters film without spooks, specters, or ghosts. It was the packs, it was the traps, it was the car. Once the Egon connection is established in the movie, other familiar iconography from the original films is revealed: “Certainly, my connection with Ghostbusters always had to do with this ephemera. “Why is this family here? Who was their grandfather? Why did Egon come to this part of the country, to Summerville, Oklahoma, why this house? What is under the floor?”

MISSHAPEN CHAIR FACE REVEAL MOVIE

“We wanted the movie to unfold like a mystery,” Reitman said. That journey also dictated how the narrative should be structured. And this is a film that is about discovery and it really is about a family retracing its roots.” Obviously, the franchise is synonymous with New York City, but we wanted to go someplace new. “Gil Kenan and I immediately wanted to establish a new location for Ghostbusters. In addition to making it a story about family, they also opted to place Afterlife in an entirely different setting for the franchise. To help him craft this new Ghostbusters tale, Reitman teamed with Monster House filmmaker Gil Kenan to co-write the screenplay.

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