One of the key reasons we never got a Ghostbusters 3 in Ramis’ lifetime is the late talent’s estrangement from Murray. But maybe what makes it sit a little better is the off-screen dynamics acknowledged in this moment.
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And frankly, it took us the entire length of the making of the movie to accomplish.”Īnd to their team’s credit, it was more convincing than similar digital resurrections of Peter Cushing in Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016) and Carrie Fisher in Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019). And I knew that the success of the film depended on one moment that was going to have to depend on technology that was on the bleeding edge. “I knew it was going to be very hard to pull off. “I knew what the ending of the movie was very early,” Reitman says. With that said, he does speak of how difficult it was to create this movie moment. When we bring up the moment with Reitman, the director declines to get into the specific emotions of the scene.
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It’s a major creative gamble, both in terms of technology and also tastefulness given that they’re recreating through digital trickery the face of a beloved actor who died in 2014. “And it would feel like Christmas morning as you opened a gift after a gift, and found yourself back in the film that you loved.” “When we started breaking down how it might work, very early on did I think it would be wonderful a film where we handed audiences back the PKE Meter, the trap, the car, the pack, and eventually the guys,” Reitman explains. He’d slowly unfurl all those old fan favorites in piecemeal, building up to the original trio showing up in the climax. While the filmmaker was adamant about making his own unique interpretation of ghostbusting, one that would focus on a family coming back together after discovering their late grandfather’s old secrets hidden in the American heartland, Reitman also wanted to use this approach as a slow burn. “I would not have been interested in making this film if it did not have the original Ghostbusters,” Reitman says. (Pandemic delays turned out to be far more powerful than even Gozer the Gozerian!) Even so, writer-director Jason Reitman told us last month that it was always his intent to bring back the original stars of his father’s 1984 classic. The reveal of seeing all three of the surviving Ghostbusters stars on-screen and in the jumpsuits again is a surprise Sony has (mostly) tried to hide over the two years it took to release Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The Choice of Including the Original Ghostbusters “I love that sound,” Zeddemore happily enthuses when their proton packs are switched on and they attempt to show this prehistoric witch how they do things downtown. But that’s when the three surviving OG Ghostbusters-Ray Stantz ( Dan Aykroyd), Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson), and good ol’ Doc Venkman (Bill Murray)-appeared out of the proverbial cornfield ready to kick some ass. Instead the trap failed to go off, and poor Lucky (Celeste O’Connor) got possessed by one of the Zuul spirits, turning into a dog. She’d returned from a parallel dimension and had totally defeated the plan of young Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) to capture her essence in the giant ghost trap that Old Man Egon Spengler built beneath his farm. Gozer is whatever Gozer wants to be!)-had won. Moments before it looked like Gozer-the Destructor Herself (or Himself.
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Nevertheless, you could physically sense the waves of nostalgia it triggered throughout the audience of the Ghostbusters: Afterlife premiere earlier this week when those words were shouted again. “Hey flattop!” It’s a line we haven’t heard Bill Murray utter for nearly 40 years. This article contains Ghostbusters: Afterlife spoilers.