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Dan Aykroyd Hints at the Future of ‘Ghostbusters’; “There Are Ghosts Around the World”
The Ghostbusters film franchise is back this week with fifth installment Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, a direct sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife – and by extension, the original two Ghostbusters movies – that brings the ghost-busting action back to New York City.
But where is the franchise headed next, you may be wondering?
In a chat with The Hollywood Reporter this week, Dan Aykroyd teases that the franchise could eventually make its way outside of the United States – if Frozen Empire is a hit, that is.
Aykroyd teases, “We like New York, but it’s not to say that we couldn’t make New York the base and travel off somewhere else.” He notes, “Hey, there are ghosts around the world.”
You can watch the interview snippet down below.
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, now playing in theaters, 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.
Meagan writes in her review for Bloody Disgusting, “Frozen Empire offers familiar set pieces, references, and easter eggs aplenty, but the nostalgia tank is now running on empty.”
“There are ghosts around the world” – Dan Aykroyd teases what could be next for the #Ghostbusters after #FrozenEmpire pic.twitter.com/cyPKBYfhLN
— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) March 22, 2024
It was announced two years ago that filmmaking team Radio Silence (Ready or Not, Scream, Scream VI, Abigail) were working on bringing Snake Plissken back to the screen for a brand new movie based on John Carpenter’s Escape from New York for 20th Century Studios, with John Carpenter himself on board as an executive producer of the upcoming movie.
The project had originally been described as a “reboot,” but filmmakers Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett had described it as more of a “requel.” Unfortunately, the pair revealed to Comicbook.com that they’re no longer developing the requel and have parted ways with the project.
Gillett told the outlet, “We are not, unfortunately. I think titles like that bounce around for a while and I think they’ve tried to get that out of the blocks a few times. I think it’s just ultimately a tricky rights issue thing. There’s a clock on it and we just weren’t in a position to make the clock, ultimately. But who knows? I think, in hindsight, it feels crazy that we would think we would, post-Scream, step into a John Carpenter franchise. You never know. There’s still interest in it and we’ve had a few conversations about it but we’re not attached in any official capacity.”
Escape from New York was set in 1997. “When the U.S. president crashes into Manhattan, now a giant maximum security prison, a convicted bank robber is sent in to rescue him.”
In Escape from LA, also directed by John Carpenter, “Snake Plissken is once again called in by the United States government to recover a potential doomsday device from Los Angeles, now an autonomous island where undesirables are deported.”
Radio Silence is fresh off of helming gory vampire movie Abigail. It’s the third vampire movie from the Universal Monsters brand in the past year, the film scaring up $34.7 million at the worldwide box office these past few weeks. That gives it a higher worldwide gross than both The Last Voyage of the Demeter ($21.7 million) and Renfield ($26.4 million), and it’s also the most critically successful of the three vampire movies. Abigail also just landed on Premium VOD, so you can watch at home now.
Stay tuned for additional details on the Escape from New York requel, and what’s next for Radio Silence.
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