‘Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire’: The Ghostbusters Take On Tall, Dark, And Horny - Trailer

Feb 20

From Ryan Cordaro

I have to admit something: I don’t really know a lot about Ghostbusters. I’ve seen all of them except for the second one, and I like the ones I’ve seen well enough. I’m aware that I have a hot take on it: I think the latest movie, 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, is my personal favorite and it really won me over on the idea of Ghostbusters as a potential franchise. Even when I’m looking up things about the newest movie, Frozen Empire, I’m seeing that a lot of inspiration is being pulled from the animated series from the 90s, The Real Ghostbusters. I don’t know enough about the later movies to know if this is the first time they’re doing this, but I think that’s untapped potential right there.

In the latest entry in the Ghostbusters franchise, the Spengler family decide to leave Summerville, Oklahoma and go back to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – and help the original Ghostbusters, who have developed a top-secret research lab to take busting 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. There’s a new director on board for this, Gil Kenan, who’s made Monster House and the Sam Rockwell-starring Poltergeist remake, which I don’t think are that bad. Kenan was actually a writer on Afterlife, so I’m down for this change in direction for it.

The cast for Frozen Empire includes Paul Rudd (Only Murders in the Building, the upcoming Death of a Unicorn), Carrie Coon (Gone Girl, The Gilded Age), Finn Wolfhard (Stranger Things, Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio), Mckenna Grace (Gifted, Malignant), Kumail Nanjiani (Migration, Eternals), William Atherton (Die Hard, Real Genius), Patton Oswalt (Weird! The Al Yankovic Story, Ratatouille), Celeste O’Connor (Freaky, Madame Web), Logan Kim (The Walking Dead: Dead City, Ghostbusters: Afterlife), Bill Murray (The French Dispatch, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania), Dan Aykroyd (The Blues Brothers, the Ghostbusters franchise), Ernie Hudson (Quantum Leap, The Crow), and Annie Potts (Pretty in Pink, Young Sheldon).