{"id":230983,"date":"2019-09-15T06:49:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=230983"},"modified":"2019-09-15T06:49:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-15T10:49:13","slug":"ghostbuster-sequel-to-focus-on-a-family-of-original-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/09\/15\/ghostbuster-sequel-to-focus-on-a-family-of-original-film\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Ghostbuster’ sequel to focus on a family of original film"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"\"<\/a>
Both men were at Universal Studios Hollywood, where they were promoting a \u201cGhostbusters\u201d-themed \u201cHalloween Horror Nights\u201d maze attraction. (File Photo<\/a>: Raffi Asdourian\/Flickr<\/a>, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

LOS ANGELES \u2014 The upcoming \u201cGhostbuster\u201d sequel will focus on the descendants of the original ghost-catchers who rushed around New York City in proton packs and jumpsuits.<\/p>\n

Ivan Reitman and Dan Aykroyd revealed details of the new film, saying it is expected out next year and will star Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon and McKenna Grace. Reitman directed the original 1984 film and Aykroyd co-wrote and co-starred in it. Reitman’s son, Jason, is directing the new movie.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it’s a wonderful story because people seem to continue to be interested in 35 years after we came out with the first one. And I think we’re trying to expand it a little bit. And I think Jason’s movie does that,\u201d Ivan Reitman said Thursday. \u201cThis is a story about a family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Both men were at Universal Studios Hollywood, where they were promoting a \u201cGhostbusters\u201d-themed \u201cHalloween Horror Nights\u201d maze attraction.<\/p>\n

The franchise was last revived in 2016 with a group of four actresses \u2014 Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones \u2014 taking over as the title characters, a gender reversal from the original.<\/p>\n

Aykroyd, who is a producer along with Reitman on the new \u201cGhostbusters,\u201d praised the 2016 film but said it was time to hand off the mantle \u201cto a new generation.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough the girls’ movie kept the concept and the ideas alive \u2014 and it was really good, they were great in it \u2014 it wasn’t like giving it to the new generation, the actual descendants of the original Ghostbusters. So we’re going to link to the DNA old and new there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES \u2014 The upcoming \u201cGhostbuster\u201d sequel will focus on the descendants of the original ghost-catchers who rushed around New …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":230984,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-230983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-hollywood","mauthors-ryan-pearson","mauthors-the-associated-press"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230983"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230983\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230985,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230983\/revisions\/230985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}