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‘A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors’ Actor Ira Heiden Voiced the Mini-Pufts in ‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’!
We learned earlier this week that Josh Gad is the voice of new ghost Muncher in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, but there’s another fun voice cameo that horror fans in particular will love.
Revealed during a conversation with The 80’s Slasher Librarian, A Nightmare on Elm Street: Dream Warriors star Ira Heiden contributed to Ghostbusters: Afterlife in some fun ways!
Of particular note, Heiden, who memorably played “Wizard Master” Will in Dream Warriors back in 1987, voices several of the Mini-Puft characters, baby versions of the classic Stay Puft.
“I asked my buddy who directed the movie, said I will do anything… any part… voice stuff, ADR, anything. And so I got to do ADR [Additional Dialogue Recording]… I got to play a bunch of ghosts, screaming ghosts and moaning ghosts. And scared children and adults running away from the ghosts,” Heiden explains. “So the people who were running the session said that the director wanted me to stay… that’s when I found out I was going to voice the mini Stay Puft characters.”
Heiden continues, “So there’s a bunch of them up there… there’s one that’s on the grill that’s salivating and sucking it back up, that’s me. There’s one on the Rumba, you’ll see that bumps into Paul Rudd, one of those are me. There’s another guy that’s eating a green jelly bean and poops it out, that’s me. And there’s a bunch of others actors/actresses that are on there also.”
“It was three and a half to four hours of pure fun,” Heiden adds.
You can watch the full chat below. The Ghostbusters: Afterlife talk begins at 32:00.
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In addition to Leigh Whannell’s upcoming Universal Monsters movie Wolf Man, Julia Garner (The Royal Hotel) has also joined the cast of Weapons, THR has announced tonight.
Weapons is the new horror movie from New Line Cinema and director Zach Cregger (Barbarian), with Julia Garner joining the previously announced Josh Brolin (Dune 2).
The upcoming Weapons is from writer/director Zach Cregger, who will also produce alongside his Barbarian producing team: Roy Lee of Vertigo and J.D. Lifshitz and Raphael Margules of BoulderLight Pictures. Vertigo’s Miri Yoon also produces.
The Hollywood Reporter teases, “Plot details for Weapons are being kept holstered but it is described as a multi and inter-related story horror epic that tonally is in the vein of Magnolia, the 1999 actor-crammed showcase from filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson.”
Cregger was a founding member and writer for the New York comedy troupe “The Whitest Kids U’Know,” which he started while attending The School of Visual Arts. The award-winning group’s self-titled sketch comedy show ran for five seasons on IFC-TV and Fuse. He was also a series regular on Jimmy Fallon’s NBC series “Guys with Kids” and the TBS hit series “Wrecked,” and was featured in a recurring role on the NBC series “About a Boy.”
Weapons will be distributed worldwide by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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