Ghostbusters: Afterlife, director Jason Reitman’s sequel to his father Ivan Reitman’s films Ghostbusters (watch it HERE) and Ghostbusters II (watch that one HERE), reaches theatres this Friday, November 19th, and the original Ghostbusters Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson stopped by The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon to promote the new film. Murray, Aykroyd, and Hudson are indeed in the new sequel, reprising their iconic roles… and yes, as teased in the final trailer, they do suit up and do some ghost busting in it. They discuss what it was like to put the ghost busting equipment back on in the Tonight Show clips embedded below.
A preview of that conversation: “It hurt.”
Written by Reitman and Gil Kenan, Ghostbusters: Afterlife stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, and Mckenna Grace as
a family with single mom Callie and her two kids, Trevor and Phoebe, who move into a beaten-down farmhouse in Oklahoma only to discover that there’s something strange in the neighborhood. Unexplained quakes shake the town. There’s an old mine nearby that bears the name of Ivo Shandor, who built the Manhattan high-rise in the 1984 film that channeled the forces of evil.
Paul Rudd plays “a local teacher who’s been documenting the unexplained phenomena, befriending Callie and her kids, and helping make the connection between the current weirdness and the events of three decades before”. Also in the cast are Bokeem Woodbine, Tracy Letts, and Oliver Cooper, with Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts also reprising their roles from the first two Ghostbusters movies. Josh Gad recorded the sounds made by a ghost called Muncher.
Ivan Reitman produced Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with Aykroyd serving as executive producer alongside Jason Blumenfeld, Michael Beugg, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth, and Kenan.
Our own Chris Bumbray already had the chance to watch Ghostbusters: Afterlife and gave the film an 8/10 review you can read at THIS LINK.