when Ghostbusters: Afterlife It’s over, really over.The old and new Ghostbusters defeat Gozer, we see the Ecto-1 heading towards New York City, and That’s pretty much it. What exactly happens next to the Spengler family that we’ve been following throughout the movie?how do they feel Met the ghost version of Egon? We’ll never find out.
sequel, Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, released this week, answers some of those questions, but not all. After a table-setting prologue, the main story picks up two years later, and we’re reacquainted with the Spengler family, who now not only live in New York City, but have become members of the Ghostbusters. Questions like how they got there and what they were doing are answered along the way, but fans of the last film may be curious about what happened in between.
“As writers, we made a fateful choice to move forward two years,” frozen empire co-writer and director Gil Kenan told io9. “We actually thought about trying one at the end of the year afterlife, This photo shows a Subaru family driving on a highway out of Oklahoma with a tarp-covered trailer behind them. That tarp is flapping and you can see there’s some kind of Ecto-1 behind it. Of course, we then filmed the beautiful coda of Ernie Hudson’s Winston Zeddemore character taking Ecto-1 to the firehouse.This is how we hook it up to the event frozen empire I am planning to study it in depth. “
So, yes, the scene in the end credits of the movie where Winston returns the Ecto-1 to New York is the only real connection we have between the movies.But Kenan and co-writer Jason Reitman did Discuss more.
“We wrote story sketches of what happened over the years,” Kennan said. “Very early on, Jason and I decided that these stories weren’t important to the story we were telling. frozen empire But they are fun. So we actually developed them as comic books. They came out.They were really cool and they filled the two years from Oklahoma State to the event frozen empire“.
That series is called Ghostbusters: Back to Town and debuts later this month. Learn more here.
Ultimately, though, the reason we dive right into the story is more about the Spengler family and how they finally settle into the home they’ve been looking for since the beginning of the last film.
“We really wanted to establish the idea of finding a home for our new characters, the Spengler family,” Kennan said. “That search started with their dislocation. afterlife Maybe the farmhouse will be a way to solve the problem, a pragmatic question for Carly, of where to put down roots for a family that’s looking for something to lean on. Some sense of eternity.So we have started the process of developing this theme, thinking [original Ghostbusters] The firehouse serves as a potential target for the family to solve the problems they need to solve.something anchored in the same way Ghostbusters Fans clamored for his return to the firehouse. It’s a process that happens organically through writing. afterlife, which feels like a very natural setup for how this movie begins. “
We’ll get more information from Kenan, and about Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, later this week. Opens Friday.
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