Ghostbusters: Afterlife Was In Development At The Same Time As Paul Feig’s Reboot

Calling Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters reboot divisive can be promoting it brief, when it turned out to be one of the most polarizing blockbusters in recent memory. The feminine-led continuation of the franchise was mercilessly and vociferously trolled, down-voted and blasted at each flip, though critics thought it was fairly good.

Shortly after that temporary experiment ended, Jason Reitman was introduced to be following in his father’s footsteps by co-writing and directing Ghostbusters: Afterlife, a direct sequel to 1989’s second installment. We’re simply weeks away from the film coming to theaters, but it surely seems the venture has an extended historical past than Sony have been initially keen to disclose.

As revealed by Reitman in an interview with Insider, Afterlife was in growth similtaneously Feig’s Ghostbusters, however the filmmaker was sworn to secrecy in regards to the movie’s existence.

“I believe solely three folks at Sony knew of its existence. Every government needed to come by themselves to Ghost Corps and browse the script in a room after which depart. I actually didn’t need it on the market that we have been penning this film. Significantly after years of me saying I didn’t need to make a Ghostbusters film.”

Reitman admitted that he’d spent his whole professional career actively avoiding Ghostbusters, earlier than finally wielding the megaphone on Afterlife. The early critiques have been sturdy, and a wholesome field workplace complete is just about assured when you think about longtime followers of the property have been ready over 30 years to see it, by no means thoughts the brand new audiences to have found the basic 1984 authentic within the generations since.