After 1989, the “Ghostbusters” franchise laid dormant for decades. Sure, there was “The Real Ghostbusters” animated series, as well as the short-lived, more modern “Extreme Ghostbusters” that followed, as well as several books, video games, comic books, and other media. Throughout the years, there were rumblings about Ivan Reitman, Dan Aykroyd, and Harold Ramis getting a third “Ghostbusters” movie together, but it never came to fruition. Instead, it took Ivan Reitman’s filmmaker son, Jason Reitman (director of Oscar-nominated films like “Juno” and “Up in the Air”), to step up and claim his father’s legacy by reigniting the franchise with “Ghostbusters: Afterlife,” shortly before the elder Reitman sadly passed away.
This is the next step in the series, because even though it primarily follows characters we’ve never met before, everything is tied to the legacy of the original “Ghostbusters.” The series follows a single mother (Carrie Coon) and her two children, the teenage Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and precocious adolescent Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) as they leave New York City to inherit a dusty old farm in Summerville, Oklahoma that belonged to their estranged relative, who just so happens to be Egon Spengler, Harold Ramis’ character from the first “Ghostbusters.”
In the movie, Phoebe and Trevor slowly discover who their late, absent grandfather actually was, as they find themselves caught up in another surge of paranormal activity that only a gang of aspiring Ghostbusters could deal with. And yes, there are plenty of references to the original movie, including the return of almost all the key cast members (sadly, Harold Ramis passed away before the movie was made, but his presence is more than felt in this sequel).
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