Revered Spengler saga heads to New York for Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel
Because busting makes everyone feel good, there's also a new Ghostbusters animated movie on the way
Ghostbusters movies are like poetry; they rhyme. Every stanza rhymes with the last one, with the demons of one generation haunting the next. It was true of the Skywalkers, and now, it’s true of the Spenglers, one of the seminal families of fantasy and science fiction. And the Spengler saga will continue just as Harold Ramis and Dan Aykroyd intended for their little comedy about a team of ghost exterminators for whom busting feels good.
Fans hear echoes of the past throughout the extended Ghostbusters Cinematic Universe (GCU). In Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the daughter and granddaughter of deadbeat dad Egon Spangler maintain the family legacy by fighting whatever Ghostbusters reference randomly asserts itself upon the plot. And because nothing ends and all stories must continue until they’re simply repeating lines and beats from what came before in a never-ending feedback loop designed to make viewers happy that they recognized something, more Ghostbusters sequels and spin-offs are on the way.
Yesterday was apparently Ghostbusters Day, one of those holidays we assume Hallmark created to sell greeting cards and announce Ghostbusters stuff. To cap off the day, commemorated by a keynote address during which Sony rattled off upcoming Ghostbusters ephemera, Afterlife director Jason Reitman announced that the live-action sequel has a codename: “Firehouse.”