Jason Reitman believes the Ghostbusters franchise didn’t increase quicker as a result of his father, Ivan Reitman, didn’t perceive sequels
Ivan Reitman was the director of the 1984 supernatural comedy traditional Ghostbusters – but it surely took him 5 years to get round to creating Ghostbusters II, and the movie franchise went dormant for a very long time after that. We didn’t get one other Ghostbusters film till the reboot in 2016, then Reitman’s son Jason got here in to direct Ghostbusters: Afterlife (which ignored the reboot and tied again to the primary two movies) in 2021. Jason Reitman stayed on to provide and co-write 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and extra tasks are within the works with Reitman in a producer function. Followers have all the time been conscious that one of many the reason why we didn’t get a Ghostbusters 3 sooner is the truth that Invoice Murray was reluctant to reprise the function of Ghostbuster Peter Venkman – however throughout an interview on Neal Brennan’s Blocks podcast, Jason Reitman stated that one other difficulty was, “My dad never understood sequels.”
Talking of his late father, who handed away in 2022, Jason Reitman stated (with due to GhostbustersNews for the transcription), “My dad by no means understood sequels. My dad was like, ‘I don’t know why folks need to return to these things.’ Like, after I wrote Afterlife, and also you meet this lady, and she or he goes out to Oklahoma and she or he finds a proton pack, and my dad’s like, ‘This is great.’ After which the canines confirmed up, which is identical factor as ’84, and he’s like, ‘Why Gozer? Why do we need to go back?’ He’s identical to, ‘Can I just have a new story?’ I believe it’s one of many causes the Ghostbusters franchise didn’t flourish constantly over a long time. My dad, after Ghostbusters, was like, ‘I’m going to go do Twins. I don’t care.’ He made Ghostbusters II, after which there’s nothing for years. That is how a lot my dad cared about sequels. On the Ghostbusters automotive in Ghostbusters II, it has the Ghostbusters character with a 2. That doesn’t make any sense. I requested him years later, ‘Why does the Ghostbusters movie logo for the sequel appear on Ecto-1? Are they aware that they’re in a sequel? Is that why they’ve the Ghostbusters ghost with the two on the aspect of their bodily automotive?’ And my dad was identical to, ‘Yeah, that was probably a mistake.’ He simply didn’t care. Like, he doesn’t care about that factor that folks love about Marvel, the place each a part of that franchise, whether or not it’s a lunchbox or a comic book e book, is relating a collective story. In the event you love Marvel, all the things connects. That’s the reverse of my father. My father was identical to, ‘I just want to go tell the story.’“
Jason Reitman clearly does perceive the enchantment of sequels. Not solely did he assist get Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire out into the world simply three years after Ghostbusters: Afterlife was launched, however his writing associate Gil Kenan (who directed Frozen Empire) has confirmed that extra films are being mentioned. Kenan has stated that he and Reitman “take the responsibility and the joy of being the keepers of the flame of Ghostbusters very seriously.” The subsequent Ghostbusters film we’re more likely to see is an animated film that Sony Animation, Netflix, and director Kris Pearn (Cloudy with a Probability of Meatballs 2) are collaborating on.
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