Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Ghostbusters : Afterlifedirector Jason Reitman confirms thatGhostbusters IIis in canyon with the new celluloid . Afterlifeis presently bring in theatre , and is expected to hit # 1 at the boxful office for the weekend . The film follows a individual mom and her kids go into a farmhouse in a small town that was owned by their gramps , who turn out to be one of the base members of the Ghostbusters . The movie stars Paul Rudd , Carrie Coon , Finn Wolfhard , McKenna Grace , Bokeem Woodbine , and Tracy Letts and featurescameos from originalGhostbustersstarsincluding Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Ernie Hudson , and Annie Potts .
Although the film is technically the quaternary in theGhostbustersfranchise , it ignores the continuity of the 2016 remaking , which starred Melissa McCarthy , Kristen Wiig , Kate McKinnon , and Leslie Jones . It is rather a lineal subsequence to the originalGhostbusterscontinuity that uprise in 1984’sGhostbusters , which was directed by Jason Reitman ’s beginner Ivan . That motion picture ’s 1989 subsequence , Ghostbusters II , isn’t directly reference in the storyline , leading to some interrogative sentence about whether or notAfterlifeconsiders it part of the persistence or opt to ignore it , similar to the waythe 2018Halloweenfilmignored all the sequel after the first .
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Speaking withUproxx , Jason Reitman confirmed thatGhostbusters IIis indeed canyon in his new film . He pointed out some minor references to the film scattered throughoutAfterlife , including Ray Stantz running the Ray ’s Occult bookstore , which only subsist in the sequel . He accept that " there ’s actually pot of lost of Ghostbusters II details but nobody knows Ghostbusters II alfresco of Vigo the Carpathian and the Ghostbusters II logo . " Beyond that he does n’t go into too much particular about the room that the plot ofGhostbusters IIinteracts withAfterlife , hint that " we have ideas moving frontward " and that motion picture may splice in more directly with a subsequence toAfterlifeif that gets the green light . take the full quote below :
" I care I could talk to you about [ Egon deciding to repaint the Ghostbusters II logotype on the Ecto-1 . ]
" I ’m just enunciate that ’s a game that is not in this film and we have idea actuate forward .
" Ghostbusters II , unquestionably canyon . There are reference to Ghostbusters II in Afterlife . We meet Ray work at Ray ’s Occult . The wassailer from Ghostbusters II is in the kitchen in the farmhouse . There ’s really lots of lost of Ghostbusters II details but nobody knows Ghostbusters II outside of Vigo the Carpathian and the Ghostbusters II logo . So there ’s this assumption that it is not canon but it is definitely canyon . "
Ghostbusters IIhad a similar plotlineto the beginning ofAfterlife , afford on the Ghostbusters being block and disgrace , appearing at kids ' natal day parties rather than being celebrate for saving the city five class ago . The onetime crew gets dragged back into a supernatural adventure yet again when a 16th 100 magician called Vigo the Carpathian seek to regain mightiness in the real reality through a portrait at the museum where Sigourney Weaver ’s Dana Barrett work . The Ghostbusters also discover a river of slime running beneath the city that post a charge of negatively charged energy through the citizen of New York .
Ghostbusters : Afterlifehas a mass of possible avenues to go down if they wish to research a close tie toGhostbusters II(which also admit a live Statue of Liberty ) . Unfortunately , both actors who play Vigo the Carpathian ( he was played by Wilhelm von Homburg and voice by Max von Sydow ) have pass off away since the release of the motion picture . However , with his ability to possess souls , it ’s entirely potential for him to return in some content .
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