While we all waited with baited breath yesterday for exciting Ghostbusters news, given that it was Ghostbusters Day and the 40th anniversary of the original movie, it turned out to be fairly quiet.
The big two reveals of the day were that Netflix were teasing some news on their upcoming animated series and that Haslab were teasing a new Ecto-1 product to be revealed before the end of the year, but alas, no news of new movies, shows or even a comic series.
However, a new video has appeared online (below) of director of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason Reitman doing an introduction to a special screeing of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire at Sony Pictures Studios yesterday and while the introduction does contain alot of the expected content about the franchise in general, Reitman does seem very upbeat and excited when he says at the end: “We have a lot more stories that we want to tell you, that we’re working on.”
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This is good news because, since Frozen Empire’s release, there has been a lot of chat about how it failed to light up the box office and, with the lack of announcements yesterday, there was fear that perhaps Sony Pictures had become disillusioned with the franchise and were less than keen to continue the story on down the line, but Reitman’s joy at the screening as his referencing of future stories in the Ghostbusters universe has us hopeful that the IP is alive and well and we’ll all know who to call for many years to come.
Watch Reitman’s introduction and comments here:
Ghostbusters Day was celebrated at Sony Pictures Studios with a private screening of Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, introduced by Jason Reitman.
Video credit: @jdraimer pic.twitter.com/y1NqbPPg0V
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