Apparently Rick Moranis turned down a 2016 appearance so I guess we probably won’t be seeing him.
I’m guessing that “Ghostbuster but not THAT new Ghostbusters but the one that’s a real sequel to the original Ghostbusters” is banking harder on Gen X nostalgia to sell tickets than hoping people turn to the Ghostbusters franchise for their modern horror needs.
The casting sure left no question about which original Ghostbuster they are related to.
If they do a bit of deconstruction *… think there’s room for it.
*possible examples: “No due process?? You just condemn hot dog demons and regular people alike to eternity in this box??”
“Peck was right.”
I think I’ll sit this one out.
I liked the 2016 reboot quite a lot, and my perception—mistaken or not—is that a lot of the drubbing it received was from the how-dare-they-replace-three-men-with-three-women crowd. (I’m not saying it was flawless, of course; but I think it deserved a much better reception than it got.) That being the case, I’m really not interested in a new version that, it appears, wants to deny that it ever existed.
The reboot denied that the original existed. This is a sequel to the original. I’m not sure how you could make a sequel to the original while referencing a movie not in that timeline.
Interesting - you don’t see any of the original Ghostbusters in the trailer (other than in new clips), but the cast lists Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson, and Sigourney Weaver. Either they are being credited for clips of the old movie being in the new one, or they’re getting as much of the band back together as they could.
Is the house in this movie the one that was mortgaged to finance the business in the original movie?
I wanted so badly to like 2016 Ghostbusters… I kinda liked that it was all women.
I just sat their… Saying to myself; “maybe the next scene will be cool…” There are people out there that genuinely didn’t like the movie and wanted to.
There’s already a 32 things you missed analysis of the trailer. By some guy who can’t pronounce “librarian”.
What have those Hittites been up to lately, anyway?
The town where the chase took place is Fort Macleod, about thirty miles west of me. I recognize many of the buildings and businesses on Main Street: Johnny’s Restaurant, the Senior Citizen centre, and the Empress Theatre (whose marquee they shot up) which is quite historic. Those scenes were done last summer; it was on the local news.
I don’t know what the other town they show in long aerial shots is–IMDB doesn’t say. It’s not Fort Macleod; there are too many hills in the background.
That was the second Hollywood production to use Fort Macleod this year. The first was Let Him Go, with Kevin Costner and Diane Lane, which is scheduled for a 2020 release, but I’m not sure exactly when. I got a part as a background extra in it. Just hope my scene doesn’t end up on the cutting room floor!
Yeah, I get that. But it’s like, the franchise had moved on, and now they’re dragging back it again; and I liked where it had moved on to just fine.
I kind of felt like I was watching a trailer for a Tremors sequel.
Did Dean Koontz write a “Ghostbusters” movie? 
It was Ray’s house that was mortgaged, and this house apparently was inherited from Egon, so I’d guess not.
Yeah, quite apart from the casting there’s definitely the same vibe here and one suspects they’re deliberately targeting the ST demographic.
And note that Stranger Things, despite being a horror-themed show, is rife with humor. They could well pull off the same mix here.
There is probably a significant overlap of Stranger Things and Ghostbusters fans, nevermind the ST Kids cosplaying as them in S2. So I would not be surprised if they took a hefty dose of inspiration from it for the movie, beyong casting Finn Wolfhard.
IMHO the original was definitely a comedy with a horror scaffolding rather than a horror movie. Even if we limit comparisons to movies from the same time period, I think it has a lot more in common with something like Beetlejuice as opposed to straight horror like The Exorcist or Halloween.
Really? I agree that it didn’t seem to be a comedy, but a horror movie? I didn’t get that vibe at all. No one seemed all that scared. It felt more adventure movie.
If it’s horror, then I lose all interest. The closest to horror that I like is Scooby Doo.