When Ghostbusters: Afterlife ends, it actually ends. Ghostbusters new and previous defeat Gozer, we see the Ecto-1 driving to New York Metropolis, and that’s pretty much it. What precisely was subsequent for the Spengler household we’d been following for a complete movie? How did they really feel having encountered the ghost version of Egon? We by no means discover out.
The sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, hits theaters this week and solutions a few of these questions, however not all of them. After a table-setting prologue, the principle story picks up two years later as we’re reintroduced to the Spenglers, who at the moment are not simply residing in New York Metropolis, however already established as Ghostbusters. Alongside the way in which, questions like how they bought there and what they’re doing are answered, however followers of the earlier movie could also be inquisitive about what occurred in between.
“We made a decisive alternative as writers to leap ahead two years in time,” Frozen Empire co-writer and director Gil Kenan informed io9. “We truly had a shot that we thought-about doing on the finish of Afterlife, and by no means shot, that confirmed the household Subaru driving on the freeway out of Oklahoma, with a towed automobile behind it lined in a tarp. And that tarp was flapping and also you see kind of Ecto-1 behind it. However then, after all, we filmed that stunning coda with Ernie Hudson’s Winston Zeddemore character bringing the Ecto-1 into the firehouse. That was our means of hooking it into the occasions that Frozen Empire was going to be delving into.”
So, sure, the movie’s finish credit score scene exhibiting Winston returning the Ecto-1 to New York is our solely actual hyperlink between movies. However Kenan and co-writer Jason Reitman did talk about extra.
“We wrote sketches of tales for what occurred in these intervening years,” Kenan mentioned. “And early on, Jason and I made a decision that these tales weren’t going to be important to the story we have been telling in Frozen Empire however they have been attention-grabbing. And so we truly developed these as comedian books. And so they’re popping out. They’re actually cool and so they fill in these two years from Oklahoma to the occasions of Frozen Empire.”
That sequence is known as Ghostbusters: Again in City and debuts later this month. Find out more here.
Finally, although, the explanation for diving proper into the story the place it does is extra concerning the Spenglers—and the way they’re lastly settling into a house that they’ve been on the lookout for for the reason that starting of the earlier film.
“We undoubtedly wished to arrange the concept of the seek for dwelling for our new characters, the Spenglers,” Kenan mentioned. “And that search started with their dislocation at first of Afterlife and the concept that perhaps this farmhouse could be a technique to remedy an issue, a practical downside for Callie, of the place will we floor this household that’s trying to find one thing to cling to. Some sense of permanence. So we had already sort of began via that technique of creating that theme, eager about the [original Ghostbusters] firehouse as a possible aim for this household that may remedy an issue that they have been in want of fixing and that they wanted. One thing to anchor to in the identical means that Ghostbusters followers have been clamoring for that return to the firehouse. That was a course of that occurred organically via the writing of Afterlife, and it felt like a very pure setup for a way this movie might start.”
We’ll have extra from Kenan, and about Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, later this week. It opens Friday.
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