Ghostbusters: Afterlife counted on the presence of the surviving members of the original squad, and it also used Bill Murray's original sequel demand just in a different (and very emotional) manner. Ghostbusters is the latest franchise to go the reboot treatment, especially after the failure of Paul Feig'southward 2016 movie of the same proper noun, and post-obit the line of other reboots, the new moving-picture show, Ghostbusters: Afterlife, is serving as a direct sequel to Ivan Reitman's original ii movies.

Directed by Jason Reitman and set 30 years later on the events of Ghostbusters II, Ghostbusters: Afterlife now follows unmarried mother Callie (Carrie Coon) and her children Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) and Phoebe (Mckenna Grace), who after existence evicted from their habitation, are forced to motility to a farm located in Summerville, Oklahoma, which Callie inherited from her late male parent – none other than original Ghostbuster, Egon Spengler. When the boondocks experiences a series of unexplained earthquakes and other unusual activities, Trevor and Phoebe find their family'due south link to the original Ghostbusters team and decide to continue their legacy past taking care of what's messing with Summerville. With the help of the sometime Ghostbusters' equipment, Phoebe's new friend Podcast (Logan Kim), Trevor's dearest interest Lucky (Celeste O'Connor), and local seismologist and Phoebe's instructor Mr. Grooberson (Paul Rudd), they notice a huge threat that is too connected to the original squad and the first movie.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is all well-nigh family unit and legacy, with a lot of focus on Callie's resentment towards Egon for abandoning her and Phoebe's struggles to notice her place, which leads her to connect with the piece of work of her granddad. Afterlife introduces a brand new (and younger) squad of Ghostbusters that can carry on with the franchise, but truthful to the style of recent reboots in Hollywood, it also relied a lot on nostalgia. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is packed with Easter eggs and references to the past movies, and it welcomed the surviving members of the squad back. Fans were pleased to see Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Bill Murray back, even if the latter'southward demand for a render in a sequel wasn't met as he wanted, but the thought was cleverly revived.

Back in 2010, Murray shared that he would be upwardly to appear in a third Ghostbusters picture if he was killed off in the starting time reel and came back as a ghost, and at one point there was a story idea where Peter Venkman died and became a ghost and a group of Columbia students took over the Ghostbusters drape. In the end, Murray agreed to return in Ghostbusters: Afterlife without his grapheme dying, only the thought of an original member returning as a ghost was recycled in order to bring Harold Ramis' Egon Spengler back. In what's arguably the most emotional moment in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the ghost of Egon appears right on time to assist Phoebe defeat Gozer and joins his old friends in the battle, giving fans one concluding expect at the team together again. This also allowed Egon to reconcile with his family and friends and gave proper closure to his arc.

The surprise return of Egon Spengler every bit a ghost in Ghostbusters: Afterlife was the perfect tribute to Harold Ramis, his work, and the character himself, tying all loose ends most his story and giving fans one final await at the original squad together, too as a heartfelt adieu to the great Egon Spengler. Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan took an initially obscure idea from Bill Murray and turned it into 1 of the well-nigh emotional moments in the Ghostbusters franchise, which also gave proper closure to Egon Spengler and that part of Callie's story.

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