Excuse me while I chuckle for a second… the filmmakers behind the new Ghostbusters auditioned Finn Wolfhard? Like, they physically made him drive into the studio lot and read some lines in front of a camera like an asshole? He’s fuckin’ Finn Wolfhard, the scene-stealing star of both “Stranger Things” and “It: Chapter One” that should be instantly castable if he’s interested in your movie. And Ghostbusters? He was born for the role, yet he was put through the wringer and didn’t even know what he was auditioning for. That’s funny.
Wolfhard tells MTV at the ongoing CinemaCon:
“It’s all secret. It’s like completely, ya know — I didn’t even know what I was auditioning for when I auditioned for it.”
From #CinemaCon, @FinnSkata tells us that the new @Ghostbusters movie is so secret that he didn’t even know he was auditioning for it #GB20 pic.twitter.com/2IcZ1B1vzn
— MTV NEWS (@MTVNEWS) April 3, 2019
Mckenna Grace, last seen playing a young Carol Danvers in Marvel Studio’s Captain Marvel, has booked the lead role in Sony’s sequel, it was reported last week. She joins Wolfhard and Carrie Coon (Widows).
In the canonized sequel to the original Ghostbusters films…
“A family moves back home to a small town where they learn more about who they are.”
The story centers on a single mom and her children. Grace will play the daughter, while Coon is in talks to play the mom, and Wolfhard is in talks to play her son.
Sony has slated Jason Reitman’s sequel to be released on July 20, 2020.
