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 primary story picks up two years later as we’re reintroduced to the Spenglers, who are actually not simply dwelling in New York Metropolis, however already established as Ghostbusters. Alongside the way in which, questions like how they obtained 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 selection as writers to leap ahead two years in time,” Frozen Empire co-writer and director Gil Kenan informed io9. “We really 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 car behind it coated in a tarp. And that tarp was flapping and also you see type of Ecto-1 behind it. However then, in fact, we filmed that stunning coda with Ernie Hudson’s Winston Zeddemore character bringing the Ecto-1 into the firehouse. That was our manner of hooking it into the occasions that Frozen Empire was going to be delving into.”
So, sure, the movie’s finish credit score scene displaying 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 fascinating. And so we really developed these as comedian books. They usually’re popping out. They’re actually cool they usually fill in these two years from Oklahoma to the occasions of Frozen Empire.”
That sequence 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 needed to arrange the thought of the seek for dwelling for our new characters, the Spenglers,” Kenan mentioned. “And that search started with their dislocation firstly of Afterlife and the concept that possibly this farmhouse could be a technique to resolve an issue, a practical drawback for Callie, of the place can we floor this household that’s trying to find one thing to cling to. Some sense of permanence. So we had already form of began by way of that means of growing that theme, desirous about the [original Ghostbusters] firehouse as a possible purpose for this household that may resolve an issue that they have been in want of fixing and that they wanted. One thing to anchor to in the identical manner that Ghostbusters followers have been clamoring for that return to the firehouse. That was a course of that occurred organically by way of 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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