Ghostbusters 3s Easter Egg Shows It Understands Fans Better Than The Reboot

Ghostbusters 3’s Easter Egg Shows It Understands Fans Better Than The Reboot

The final trailer for Ghostbusters: Afterlife features an Easter egg that proves the film understands what fans want far better than the reboot.

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Ghostbusters 3s Easter Egg Shows It Understands Fans Better Than The Reboot

A Ghostbusters: Afterlife Easter egg found in the final trailer demonstrates that the upcoming sequel understands fans better than the 2016 reboot. Ghostbusters: Afterlife is one of the most anticipated films in recent years, as it will see the return of much of the original Ghostbusters cast – namely, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts, who are set to return in supporting roles. Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s own cast will be led by Carrie Coon, McKenna Grace, Finn Wolfhard, and Paul Rudd, and will mark a return to the original canon after the 2016 reboot.

In bringing back the original team, it seems that Ghostbusters: Afterlife will avoid the reboot’s mistakes, and the final trailer highlights even more reasons that this will be the case with the upcoming sequel. The reboot attempted to revise elements of the franchise in order to appeal to a new audience, but in doing so, it alienated much of the original’s fanbase, as the 1984 film is broadly considered a classic. This led to the film’s ultimate failure, as its status as a reboot felt misguided (and even insulting) to some fans.

The final Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer appears to right this slight against the fans, though, recapturing the magic of the franchise and paying homage to not just the original film but the wider franchise, too. From what Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s trailers have revealed so far, the sequel will incorporate elements from previous installments while introducing a new cast of characters, which was fans’ biggest issue with the reboot. For the franchise to find a future, a new team needs to be formed, but Afterlife will afford the original cast an opportunity to pass the torch, appeasing the fans who felt slighted by the reboot’s lack of reverence to its beloved roots. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s final trailer, which features the eyeball monster in an Easter egg for the franchise’s biggest fans.

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The eyeball monster was originally featured as a character in The Real Ghostbusters in 1987 and went on to feature prominently in Kenner’s line of Real Ghostbusters toys. Its inclusion in Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s trailer strikes the perfect chord for the sequel, highlighting the way in which the film embraces the franchise’s history, telling a new story while featuring nostalgic nods to those who have been fans of the franchise since the ’80s. While it appears to be a minor Easter egg, it’s certainly a good sign that Ghostbusters: Afterlife will handle its place in the franchise more carefully than the reboot, which was filled with retcons, revisionism, and reductive cameos.

The trailers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife also offer evidence that the original team split up after Ghostbusters, which makes room for creative storytelling with regards to breathing new life into the franchise, but this too shows that the upcoming film has more carefully considered what longtime fans are hoping to see. By establishing events that occurred after Ghostbusters II, Afterlife appears to be cementing the previous films’ events as canon – another good sign for fans. This, combined with the apparent inclusion of a character from The Real Ghostbusters line of toys further proves that Jason Reitman has treated the film’s place in the franchise with the same level of care and attention as the audience will.

While some are bound to think that Ghostbusters: Afterlife is making a mistake by recycling so many characters from the original film, it rights a specific wrong committed by the 2016 reboot, which reimagined the team’s origin entirely. Peter Venkman’s “Have you missed us?” line indicates that not only will Ghostbusters: Afterlife see the franchise capitalize on its nostalgic potential, but that the sequel has taken fan opinion on the disastrous reboot into consideration. Moreover, as small as the eyeball ghost’s inclusion in the trailer might seem, it’s an encouraging sight for fans of the franchise as Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s release draws ever closer.

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