Ghostbusters: Afterlife
Dan Aykroyd Looks Back On ‘Trading Places’ Blackface Scene
Dan Aykroyd is currently filming the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife and reflected on the 1983 film Trading Places with Eddie Murphy.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Went Too Far With Its Most Unsettling Cameo
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife.] Jason Reitman‘s Ghostbusters: Afterlife is packed with callbacks to the original 1980s films, not just drawing upon the iconography established by Reitman’s father but also bringing back much of the original cast, including Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, and Ernie Hudson. It also chose to pay tribute to the fourth member of the Ghostbusting team, actor and filmmaker Harold Ramis — but went too far in doing so. As Egon Spengler, Ramis was one of the original film’s most memorable characters, and Ramis also had a long and fruitful career as a director of films including Caddyshack and Groundhog Day; he died in 2014 at the age of 69 after an illness, and Afterlife is dedicated to his memory. Which is fitting, given that ...
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is Too Haunted By the Past to Feel Fresh: Review
The Pitch: Trying to tell a really good 21st century Ghostbusters story seems to be an enterprise guaranteed to make absolutely no one happy. Which already makes Ghostbusters: Afterlife a depressing venture right out of the gate; one can almost sense director Jason Reitman screaming from the sidelines, “Are you nerds happy now?!?” Unfortunately, as much as Afterlife openly seeks to draw upon nostalgia for the original, a lot of fans may find the taste of their youth to be curdled by the level of pandering involved. Things begin with the reveal that one of the original Ghostbusters (the movie gets a bit coy about this, but it’s Egon Spengler, who was played by the recently deceased Harold Ramis) had left his friends and moved to Summerville, Oklahoma in the years before his death. Following...
Peep The Latest Trailer To ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kimberley French / Sony Pictures Entertainment The latest installment of Ghostbusters was supposed to have hit theaters last summer but like everything else, the pandemic caused those plans to be scraped and canceled. Now that things are getting back to somewhat normal (for now), Ghostbusters: Afterlife has gotten a new release date and a new trailer. The latest 2-minute peek once again introduces us to Egon’s grandchildren, Phoebe (McKenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), who move out to a small town and discover that their dearly departed grandfather was once a legendary ghost hunting scientist who saved the world from the apocalypse back in the 80’s. Revamping and tweaking some of his ghostbustin’ toys such as station wagon a.k.a Ecto-1, and gho...
