“I wanted to break open what a Ghostbusters movie could be,” Reitman tells Inverse. At the 2021 New York Comic Con, Reitman told audiences the film came to him through two distinct images: a young girl wearing a Proton Pack, and a young boy drifting the Ecto-1 through fields of wheat. To fight back, they dive into their late grandfather’s cache of gadgets and gizmos from his days as a Ghostbuster.Īfterlife operates from a script co-written by Reitman and Gil Keane. Soon enough, teenagers Phoebe (Mckenna Grace) and Trevor (Finn Wolfhard) find a supernatural entity haunting their town. The movie introduces the Spenglers, a family of three led by a single mother (Carrie Coon) who move into a creaky Oklahoma home left to them by late relative Egon (originally played by Ramis, who died in 2014). Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which opens November 19, is about self-discovery in the shadow of an outsized legacy - a theme Reitman knows all too well. His father Ivan Reitman directed the first two films, Ghostbusters in 1984 and Ghostbusters II in 1989. Jason Reitman, the director of Oscar-nominated movies like Juno, gets into his family’s business with Ghostbusters: Afterlife, out in theaters November 19. To create a movie for everyone who’s ever loved, and for my father and my daughter, that became an opportunity I couldn’t pass up.” “Eventually, I came to a story I couldn’t get away from. “I never imagined directing a Ghostbusters film,” he explains. Now a father himself, Reitman says the image carried an added resonance. Initially hesitant to direct a big-budget studio sequel, Reitman gave in when he couldn’t shake off the mental image of kids with ghostbusting gear in rural farmland. “It's intimidating to follow in your parent’s footsteps,” Jason Reitman tells Inverse over Zoom, noting the added surreality of having his father on set to directly weigh in on creative decisions. On the set of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, the senior Reitman watched as his son, who’s previously directed Oscar-nominated dramas like Juno and Up in the Air, took the reins to deliver the long-awaited sequel to his original films. 40 years later, their roles are reversed. On the set of Ghostbusters, the younger Reitman, then six years old, watched his father work. Powered by comedy legends Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis, who wrote the picture and starred in it with Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson, Ghostbusters blended horror with humor in a rags-to-riches tale of three parapsychologists who join forces to catch supernatural entities in New York City. In 1984, his father Ivan Reitman directed Ghostbusters, a pop culture phenomenon that ignited a multi-million dollar franchise. For Jason Reitman, ghostbusting is the family business.
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