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‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’ Poster Highlights An Icy New York City Overrun With Ghosts
Next year’s sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife is titled Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and it will bring the franchise – and its original Ghostbusters – back to New York City. Though, this version of New York City will be a wintry wonderland judging by a brand new poster unveiled today.
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level.
But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
The previously released trailer indicates that Frozen Empire is not actually set during the Winter. Rather, it brings the icy cold grip of Winter into the warm summer months. A deadly ice storm blows into New York City in the first half of the teaser trailer, encasing the iconic Ghostbusters Firehouse in ice. “For the first time in New York history, people froze to death in the middle of July,” Patton Oswalt narrates the trailer. Dan Aykroyd is back as Ray Stantz in this first look at Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and he refers to the new threat as the “Death Chill.”
“The power to kill by fear itself,” he explains. “Your veins turn to rivers of ice. Your bones crack. And the last thing you see is your own tear ducts… freezing up.”
Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist) directed the upcoming sequel.
The cast includes Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, James Acaster, and Emily Alyn Lind, alongside Bill Murray, Finn Wolfhard, Ernie Hudson, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Coon.
Jason Reitman, who directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, is producing the upcoming sequel. The current release date is March 29, 2024, pushed back from December 2023.
It’s now been five years since the release of sequel Happy Death Day 2U, Christopher Landon’s sequel to the Groundhog Day-style slasher movie from 2017. Both films star Jessica Rothe as final girl Tree Gelbman, and director Christopher Landon had been planning on bringing the character – and the actor – back for a third installment. So… where is it?!
We’ve been talking about a potential Happy Death Day 3 for several years now, with the ball in producer Jason Blum’s court. Happy Death Day 2U scared up $64 million at the worldwide box office, a far cry from the first film’s $125 million. But with a reported production budget of just $9 million, that first sequel was profitable for Blumhouse. So again… where is it?!
Chatting with Screen Geek this week while promoting her new action-thriller Boy Kills World, franchise star Jessica Rothe provided a hopeful update on Happy Death Day 3.
“Well, I can say Chris Landon has the whole thing figured out,” Rothe explains. “We just need to wait for Blumhouse and Universal to get their ducks in a row.
Rothe continues in her comments to Screen Geek, “But my fingers are so crossed. I think Tree [Gelbman] deserves her third and final chapter to bring that incredible character and franchise to a close or a new beginning.”
Back in 2020, Christopher Landon had revealed that the working title for the third installment was Happy Death Day to Us, said to be “different than the other two films.”
In the meantime, Christopher Landon is directing a mysterious thriller titled Drop for Blumhouse and Platinum Dunes, along with a werewolf movie titled Big Bad for Lionsgate.
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