Ghostbusters: Afterlife has a lot of potential avenues to go down if they wish to explore a closer tie to Ghostbusters II (which also included a living Statue of Liberty). The Ghostbusters also discover a river of slime running beneath the city that sends a rush of negative energy through the citizens of New York. The old crew gets dragged back into a supernatural adventure yet again when a 16th century magician called Vigo the Carpathian attempts to regain power in the real world through a portrait at the museum where Sigourney Weaver's Dana Barrett works. Ghostbusters II had a similar plotline to the beginning of Afterlife, opening on the Ghostbusters being forgotten and disgraced, appearing at kids' birthday parties rather than being celebrated for saving the city five years ago. He admits that " there’s actually lots of lost of Ghostbusters II details but nobody knows Ghostbusters II outside of Vigo the Carpathian and the Ghostbusters II logo." Beyond that he doesn't go into too much detail about the way that the plot of Ghostbusters II interacts with Afterlife, hinting that " we have ideas moving forward" and that film may tie in more directly with a sequel to Afterlife if that gets the green light. He pointed out some minor references to the film scattered throughout Afterlife, including Ray Stantz running the Ray's Occult bookstore, which only existed in the sequel. Speaking with Uproxx, Jason Reitman confirmed that Ghostbusters II is indeed canon in his new film. Related: Ghostbusters: Afterlife's Revelation 6:12 Explained That film's 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II, isn't directly referenced in the storyline, leading to some question about whether or not Afterlife considers it part of the continuity or chose to ignore it, similar to the way the 2018 Halloween film ignored all the sequels after the first. It is rather a direct sequel to the original Ghostbusters continuity that originated in 1984's Ghostbusters, which was directed by Jason Reitman's father Ivan. If you’re wondering what other movies will come out later this year, look through our upcoming 2021 movies schedule.Although the film is technically the fourth in the Ghostbusters franchise, it ignores the continuity of the 2016 remake, which starred Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, and Leslie Jones. Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts will will reprise their roles from the first two Ghostbusters movies in Afterlife, which comes out on November 11. Ghostbusters: Afterlife will focus on a mother and her two children moving into the home of their late grandfather in Summerville, Oklahoma, with the kids soon learning that their family is connected to the original Ghostbusters team. So Ghostbusters 3 did eventually happen, it just took much longer than expected.
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Alas, that movie (which starred Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones) ended up commercially underperforming, prompting a return to the original Ghostbusters continuity for the upcoming Ghostbusters: Afterlife. As with the first Ghostbusters movie, Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd wrote the Ghostbusters 2 script along with reprising Egon Spengler and Raymond Stantz, respectively.Īlthough the Ghostbusters franchise would stay afloat in the decades that followed with various cartoons, video games, comic books and other media, it wouldn’t return to the big screen until 2016 with the Ghostbusters reboot, where Bill Murray and all the original surviving cast members cameoed as new characters. Murray didn’t elaborate on what was told to him and the others in the first Ghostbusters 2 pitch, but evidently something changed in-between then and when the movie started production.
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Harold had this great idea, but by the time we got to shooting it, I showed up on set and went, ‘What the hell is this? What is this thing?’ But we were already shooting it, so we had to figure out how to make it work.īill Murray acknowledged that he worked with “a great bunch of people” on Ghostbusters 2, but ultimately, he didn’t have as good of an experience making the sequel compared to the original. They got us in the sequel under false pretenses. It ended up not being the story they wrote. Bill Murray recently recalled how he and his cast-mates, who hadn’t seen each other since the first Ghostbusters came out, were brought back to hear the Ghostbusters 2 story idea that they thought was great, with Murray specifically thinking, “Holy cow, we could make that work.” Unfortunately, that story idea never made it in front of the cameras.
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