Earlier this week, we learned that Josh Gad recorded the sounds made by the ghost called Muncher in director Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife – which has finally reached theatres! Now Ira Heiden, who is best known for his performance as “Wizard Master” Will Stanton in the 1987 classic A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, has revealed that he also did some voice work on Ghostbusters: Afterlife. Most notably, Heiden is the voice of several of the tiny marshmallow men known as Mini Pufts.
Speaking with The 80s Slasher Librarian, Heiden said he went to his buddy Reitman and requested to be a part of the new film. As a result,
I got to do ADR [Additional Dialogue Recording]… I got to play a bunch of ghosts, screaming ghosts and moaning ghosts. And scared children and adults running away from the ghosts. So the people who were running the session said that the director wanted me to stay… that’s when I found out I was going to voice the mini Stay Puft characters. So there’s a bunch of them up there… there’s one that’s on the grill that’s salivating and sucking it back up, that’s me. There’s one on the Rumba, you’ll see that bumps into Paul Rudd, one of those are me. There’s another guy that’s eating a green jelly bean and poops it out, that’s me. And there’s a bunch of others actors/actresses that are on there also.”
Heiden described his ADR session as “three and a half to four hours of pure fun”.
(Thanks to our friends at Bloody Disgusting for the interview transcript.)
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 Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts reprising their roles from the first Ghostbusters (watch it it HERE) and Ghostbusters II (watch that one HERE).
Jason Reitman’s father Ivan Reitman (who directed the first two movies) 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 gave Ghostbusters: Afterlife an 8/10 review you can read at THIS LINK.