Are you ready for Ghostbusters Afterlife?

By John Freeman on November 16, 2021 • ( 1 )

We’re getting ready for Ghostbusters: Afterlife at downthetubes, opening this weekend – especially after a tease in the final trailer that some of the stars of the original films will return.

An earlier trailer confirmed that Dan Aykroyd would be making a cameo at the least, when he answers the phone at Ray’s Occult shop. But the final trailer – which remixes footage we’ve seen in other trailers and promotional videos – confirms that Aykroyd, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson are back in action.

(Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Sigourney Weaver, Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts were, of course, also in the 2016 female-led Ghostbusters film, albeit as different characters).

In the new film, when a single mother and her two children move to a new town, they soon discover they have a connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind…

Egon’s grandchildren are in the thick of the situation, and who are they going to call? The trailer ends with the definition of a teaser shot, when the original Ghostbusters show up to save the day.

Ghostbusters: Afterlife opens this week, going wide on Friday 19th November 2021. Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace are starring as Egon’s grandchildren. The cast also includes Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, and Bokeem Woodbine.

As one of the team who worked on The Real Ghostbusters comic for Marvel UK some years ago now, I am so looking forward to this!

• Check out the official web site at www.ghostbusters.com

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John Freeman

John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.

Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.

He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.