‘Ghostbusters: Afterlife’ Promises an Epic Adventure in New Trailer

Ghostbusters Afterlife

The Ghostbusters franchise is back this year, and the latest trailer promises an epic adventure.

 

As Sony announced yesterday, the new trailer, which packs a new release date for the movie, has just been released and done a great job introducing the story, context, and characters, plus reintroducing familiar elements, as well as teasing a cameo by the end. Here it is:

 

 

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is currently set for a November 11, 2021, release date. That date is very complicated, as Marvel’s Eternals is due out the week before. However, the movie is so far removed from its initial release date that it will probably hit theaters in November anyway, maybe one week later than scheduled right now at most. By then, the pandemic is very much expected to be in the rear-view mirror, with the theatrical experience fully back into our lives.

 

Things are slowly but surely going back to normal at the box office. Black Widow delivered impressive opening weekend numbers in the post-pandemic world, and posed the question: who will be the first movie to cross $100 million during its opening weekend? The most immediate candidates right now are the R-rated The Suicide Squad (although unlikely, due to the hybrid release with HBO Max and not a great tracking number so far: $35-60 million) and Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, which has a higher chance than James Gunn’s movie, but not by a lot, since character debut movies did not generally cross that line in the pre-pandemic world. Ghostbusters: Afterlife probably won’t cross it either, but hopefully someone will have done it by then.

 

Jason Reitman, the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the 1984 movie, is helming the new installment, which is set in continuity with Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II. Members of the original cast, like Bill Murray and Sigourney Weaver, are expected to be back for small appearances. Besides that, the lead roles have been played by Paul Rudd, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coon, and Finn Wolfhard, among others.