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He came in looking for a steady paycheck, and we imagined him being a huge thriving success. I guess we always imagined Dan, Ray Stantz, following his passion, and his passion is the occult, as opposed to Winston who always had a business mind. How did you come up with those trajectories for these characters?

I thought it was a nice touch that you had Winston-who was the hired gun in the first film-become the most successful one while Ray is still working the Occult bookshop. When he’s talking to Phoebe on the phone and he starts talking about the fuel isotopes and things like that, this is just stuff that only Dan can come up with. Oh yeah, particularly the dialogue for his character. And you immediately just want to scribble everything down and put it in the movie.ĭid you put anything he suggested in this movie? He has read everything, he obviously has deep roots in science fiction and ghost folklore, and when he talks about it, he talks about in just a way that no one else talks. What I love about talking to Dan Aykroyd is the moment he starts talking, you feel like you’re in the verbiage of Ghostbusters. Did he have any input or ideas he pitched to you? But as soon as I was on the set with Bill, Ernie, and Dan, I felt like I was a kid again on my Dad’s set.ĭan is always such a well-spring of ideas when it comes to everything Ghostbusters.

It’s funny because when I was on-set with like McKenna and Finn, I always thought I was making my Ghostbusters film. What was it like for you now seeing them again in those costumes but now as an adult? You’ve talked in the past about growing up on the set of the first movie. What were the discussions like with the original actors about suiting up once more? I would not have been interested in making this film if it did not have the original Ghostbusters. Was there a version of this script where the guys didn’t come back or was that always the impetus? It would feel like Christmas morning as you opened a gift after a gift, and found yourself back in the film that you loved. But this is a story I felt the urge to tell, and when we started breaking down how it might work, very early on did I think it would be wonderful a film where we handed audiences back the PKE Meter, the trap, the car, the pack, and eventually the guys. The shadow of my father, the shadow of that franchise loomed large-and was always a place I kind of avoided. I’ve always been intimidated by the idea of making a Ghostbusters film. Jason Reitman: I started talking to my writing partner Gill Kenan frequently about these ideas not knowing quite what to do with them. When did you realize their stories still needed to end with the original Ghostbusters returning on-screen?

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You’ve talked about the first images you had in your head for this movie were of a little girl using a proton pack and a teenage boy driving Ecto-1. We discuss all o those elements in the below spoiler-filled interview, as well as why Reitman made the choices he did… And yet, if you’ve seen the finished film (which we really hope you have if you’re reading this), then it’s the ending and all the little surprises which harken back to 1984 that has dominated the conversation: the three surviving Ghostbusters played by Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson returning for an encore a post-credits scene that brings back Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett and even the inclusion of a CG-recreation of the late Harold Ramis as a ghostly Egon Spengler. Blowing past all industry projections, Ghostbusters: Afterlife has very much injected new lifeblood into the nearly 40-year-old franchise, and introduced a whole new generation to the concept with a young cast of Ghostbusters which includes Mckenna Grace, Finn Wolfhoard, Logan Kim, and Celeste O’Connor. So it must have been the funniest thing when one day, the Oscar nominated filmmaker finally realized he did have a story to tell…Ī few days after the film’s impressive opening weekend, it seems plenty of people were eager to hear it too. He heard the question after he found early success in films like Thank You for Smoking (2005), Juno (2007), and Up in the Air (2009), and he heard it again in recent years.

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And so the conversation of whether he’d ever make a Ghostbusters movie came up at one time or another throughout Jason’s professional life. But while most folks likely don’t stress over such things, most folks are also not the son of Ivan Reitman, director of Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. This article contains Ghostbusters: Afterlife spoilers.Īccording to Jason Reitman, he never wanted to make a Ghostbustersmovie.

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