Thirty years since playing the ungrateful little yuppie larva that says “my dad says you guys are full of crap,” Jason Reitman will once again be the rich offspring in a Ghostbusters movie.
Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, Reitman revealed plans to pick up where father Ivan left off with a direct sequel to 1989’s Ghostbusters II. The director already has a script he co-wrote with Monster House director Gil Kenan, and plans are to shoot in a few months for a summer 2020 release.
“This is the next chapter in the original franchise,” Reitman said. “It is not a reboot. What happened in the ‘80s happened in the ‘80s, and this is set in the present day.” A present day when New York must live with the knowledge that the Statue of Liberty can be hijacked with an NES Advantage.
Following their Spider-Man model, Sony remains in production on an animated Ghostbusters alongside this abrupt course correction of a franchise follow-up.
UPDATE: There’s also this teaser that doesn’t really look much like the old movies at all.
