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‘Ghostbusters’ – Set Photos for New Movie Preview the Return of Another Original Star! [SPOILERS]
Filming kicked off last month on Sony’s untitled Ghostbusters: Afterlife sequel, and paparazzi photos from the set have found their way online today (via the UK’s Daily Mail).
We’re running this article with a huge SPOILER WARNING for a reason, so make sure to click away now if you don’t want a previously unannounced bit of casting to be spoiled.
In the set photos shared by Daily Mail today, it’s spoiled that original Ghostbusters star William Atherton is making his return to the franchise in the new installment!
Atherton memorably played antagonist Walter Peck in the 1984 comedy-horror classic, an inspector for the Environmental Protection Agency. Atherton reprised the role for the 2009 Ghostbusters video game, but to date has not appeared in any subsequent movies.
Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist) is directing the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
The cast includes Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, James Acaster, and Emily Alyn Lind, alongside Ernie Hudson, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon.
Jason Reitman, who directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, is producing the upcoming sequel. The film is scheduled to bring the ghosts back to theaters on December 20, 2023.
Last we heard, the upcoming movie will return to New York City and the iconic firehouse made famous in the original Ghostbusters films – thus the working title, Firehouse.
The first teaser for the sequel came in the form of an Afterlife post-credits scene.
“It’s an absolute honor to pick up the proton pack and step behind the camera for the next chapter of the Spengler family saga. I just wish I could go back to 1984 and tell the kid in the sixth row of the Mann Valley West that one day he was going to get to direct a Ghostbusters film,” said Kenan in a recent statement.
FIREHOUSE pix have dropped! Peck is BACK! Grooberson obviously wearing a flight suit! pic.twitter.com/LNws5LuoMu
— Michigan Ghostbusters (@MI_Ghostbusters) April 21, 2023
Sony returns to their own Marvel universe with the upcoming Kraven the Hunter, which has been bumped all over the release schedule. This week, it’s been bumped once more.
There was a time when Sony was going to unleash Kraven in theaters in October 2023, but the film was then bumped to August 2024. It’ll now release on December 13, 2024.
Kraven the Hunter will be the very first Marvel movie from Sony to be released into theaters with an “R” rating, with lots of bloody violence being promised.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the title character, Marvel’s ultimate predator.
“Kraven the Hunter is the visceral story about how and why one of Marvel’s most iconic villains came to be. Set before his notorious vendetta with Spider-Man, Aaron Taylor-Johnson stars as the titular character in the R-rated film.”
Ariana DeBose will play Calypso in the upcoming Kraven the Hunter movie.
Christopher Abbott (Possessor) is playing The Foreigner, with Levi Miller (Better Watch Out) also on board. Alessandro Nivola (The Many Saints of Newark) will play another villain, but character details are under wraps. Russell Crowe and Fred Hechinger also star.
J.C. Chandor (A Most Violent Year) is directing Kraven the Hunter.
The screenplay was written by Art Marcum & Matt Holloway and Richard Wenk.
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