The Next Ghostbusters Movie Is Coming Next Year

The Ghostbusters are coming again to theaters subsequent vacation season. Sony simply introduced that its untitled sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife will hit theaters on December 20, 2023. There’s no phrase if director Jason Reitman, son of authentic Ghostbusters director Ivan Reitman, will as soon as once more be behind the digicam, however he and co-writer/producer Gil Kenan did announce earlier this month that the movie will happen in New York City and can contain the unique Ghostbusters firehouse.

That a lot was implied by the finish credit of the final movie, which got here out in late 2021 and grossed about $200 million globally. That’s not an enormous, large smash hit by any means, however Ghostbusters is a sufficiently big model, and the movie a sufficiently big success, for Sony to dive again in.

And whereas we will assume at the least a number of the earlier movie’s solid (Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard) may make it again, one one who virtually actually will probably be again is Ernie Hudson. His character, Winston Zeddemore, was revealed in Afterlife to now be a massively profitable businessman and it was he who introduced the Ecto-1 again to New York and reacquired the Ghostbusters’ firehouse headquarters, which is the kick-off of no matter this story is.

“One thing I wanted to do [with Afterlife] is set the table for Ghostbusters as a franchise to have all kinds of movies,” Reitman instructed io9 final yr. “I want to see all those movies. And we need to do something that really was about setting a foundation and bringing the original 1984 story to a place so that other stories could bloom. I want to see the scary movies, the funny films. I want to see movies involving the original cast. I want to see more movies involving people we haven’t even seen yet. I want to go to new dimensions. I want to go to other cultures and countries. There’s so many places for Ghostbusters to go. The question is, what’s the starting place? And that’s what Afterlife is about. It’s about these generations making amends with each other in a way that brings one story to close and starts another one.”

Stepping again a bit, one of the vital intriguing tales surrounding this information is the date itself. December 20, 2023 is simply two days earlier than Disney had deliberate to launch the following Star Wars film, Rogue Squadron. All indicators have pointed to that movie being delayed and if Sony is assured sufficient to schedule an analogous style film on that very same weekend, the chances are very, superb the studio is betting that film is not going to be launched that weekend.

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