We’ve been hearing that 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), would feature a multi-limbed ghost called Muncher since even before the pandemic hit at the start of 2020 and caused the film to get pushed back to its November 19th theatrical release date. Now Empire magazine has gotten their hands on a couple new images from the film, and one of them gives us a close-up look at Muncher in action. The other image shows the young characters played by Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, Logan Kim, and Celeste O’Connor. You can see both of them at the bottom of the article.
Scripted by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan, Ghostbusters: Afterlife stars Grace, Wolfhard, and Carrie Coon 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, and Annie Potts reprising their roles from the original Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II.
Ivan Reitman produced Ghostbusters: Afterlife, with Aykroyd serving as executive producer alongside Jason Blumenfeld, Michael Beugg, Aaron L. Gilbert, Jason Cloth, and Kenan.
Empire magazine’s Ghostbusters celebration issue will be reaching newsstands on September 30th, and copies can be pre-ordered at THIS LINK.