After “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” resurrected the franchise in November 2021, Sony Pictures and director Jason Reitman promptly began creating a sequel. Reitman isn’t directing the untitled sequel anymore (author Gil Kenan is), nevertheless it’s nonetheless on observe for a Christmas 2023 theatrical launch. And with that imminent launch comes casting information from Deadline: Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt are the newest to affix the sequel’s solid. British comic James Acaster and Emily Alyn Lind are additionally on board.
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The 4 be part of Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, McKenna Grace, and Celeste O’Connor, coming back from the 2021 movie. Ernie Hudson additionally returns as Winston within the sequel, however no phrase on the opposite surviving unique Ghostbusters. The upcoming film sees the franchise return to New York City and the unique movies’ firehouse. And perhaps meaning another cameos will occur within the sequel, too.
While Reitman might not be directing, he’s nonetheless very a lot within the undertaking. He stays on board as a writer-producer with Kenan and Jason Blumenfeld. And Sony hopes to select up the place “Afterlife” left off: that film remodeled $200 million on the world box-office, a pleasing shock for the studio within the post-COVID period.
Nanjiani provides the “Ghostbusters” sequel to his different upcoming roles, like FX‘s “Homeland Elegies” and “The Doubtful Guest.” The actor’s latest work contains “Welcome To Chippendales,” Hulu‘s limited series about the infamous men’s unique dancing golf equipment, and Disney+‘s “Obi-Wan Kenobi.” As for Oswalt, he’s coming off from “I Love My Dad,” which gained Grand Jury and Audience Awards at SXSW 2022.
Acaster tasted his first stateside success with a four-part comedy collection in Netflix in 2018. As for Lind, her latest credit embody the 2 seasons of HBO Max‘s reimagining of “Gossip Girl,” Netflix’s “The Babysitter: Killer Queen,” and Mike Flanagan‘s “Doctor Sleep.”
Expect extra new in regards to the “Ghostbusters: Afterlife” sequel because it heads into manufacturing.