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‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ stars share how
new movie expands franchise’s legacy
By Peter Sblendorio
New York Daily News
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EW YORK — It wasn’t hard for
the stars of “Ghostbusters:
Afterlife” to get into the spirit of the
beloved movie franchise.
Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard,
Mckenna Grace and other cast
newcomers relished adding
another chapter to a fi lm series
that began in 1984 with the story
of parapsychologists catching
ghosts in New York City.
“I think what people don’t
remember about the original fi lm
so much is that it was very innova-
tive for its time,” Coon said during
a New York Comic Con panel on
Friday, Oct. 8.
“This was one of the fi rst times
we had comedy and action and
horror in one fi lm. Nobody had
read anything quite like that before,
so when somebody calls and says,
‘You’re going to be part of the new
‘Ghostbusters’ movie,’ I think you
just say, ‘Yes.’”
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Carrie Coon, left, Finn Wolfhard, center, and Mckenna Grace speak onstage
during the “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” cast and fi lmmakers panel at New York
Comic Con on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, in New York City.
Coon, 40, stars as Callie, the
daughter of ghostbuster Egon
Spengler, portrayed by the late
Harold Ramis in the fi rst two fi lms.
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” — in
theaters Nov. 19 — follows Callie
and her two children, portrayed by
Wolfhard and Grace, as they move
to a farmhouse in Summerville,
Oklahoma, and uncover secrets
about their family as paranormal
phenomena wreaks havoc in the
small town.
Wolfhard, who plays Mike
Wheeler on the supernatural Net-
fl ix series “Stranger Things,” only
knew he was being considered for
a movie directed by Jason Reitman
when he tried out for the fi lm.
“I had no idea what I was
auditioning for, but what’s bril-
liant about it is that it wasn’t like
a scene with action or anything,”
said Wolfhard, 18. “It wasn’t like a
talking-about-ghosts scene. It was
just a scene between a ... brother
and a little sister.”
The fi lm brings back original
“Ghostbusters” stars Bill Murray,
Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson,
while giving big roles to new char-
acters like Wolfhard’s Trevor and
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Grace’s Phoebe.
“She’s just this weird, awkward
little girl,” Grace, 15, said of her
character. “She has her brother
and her mom, but she’s diff erent
from them, you know? And she
goes to this farmhouse and she
kind of is fi nding out who her family
was and connecting to her grand-
father, who she never knew.”
Reitman — whose father, Ivan
Reitman, directed “Ghostbusters”
and “Ghostbusters II” — is a two-
time best director Oscar nominee,
for “Juno” and “Up in the Air.”
He said he was often asked
if he’d ever consider directing a
“Ghostbusters” movie, and ulti-
mately he came up with a vision to
continue the series.
“We wanted another ‘Ghost-
busters’ movie,” Jason Reitman
said. “We wanted to get back into
Ecto-1 again. We wanted to pick up
the proton pack again, and that’s
where it came from.”
The new fi lm also stars Paul
Rudd as the local schoolteacher
Mr. Grooberson, as well as Celeste
O’Connor and Logan Kim as two
of the kids in Summerville who get
caught up in the movie’s mysteries.
The stars are excited for
audiences to experience “Ghost-
busters: Afterlife” after the much-
anticipated movie, originally slated
for a July 2020 release, was forced
into multiple delays during the
COVID-19 pandemic.
“For me, the most amazing part
about being a part of this franchise
is the legacy behind it,” Wolfhard
said, “and feeling like you’re actu-
ally part of a family.”
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