Ghostbusters Afterlife Is Already Avoiding The Reboots Biggest Mistake

Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is Already Avoiding The Reboot’s Biggest Mistake

The Ghostbusters: Afterlife trailer proves the film is avoiding a major mistake made by the 2016 reboot which failed to connect with audiences.

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Ghostbusters Afterlife Is Already Avoiding The Reboots Biggest Mistake

The second official trailer proves Ghostbusters: Afterlife is already avoiding the reboot’s biggest mistake. Though 2016’s Ghostbusters retains a “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the movie led by Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon, Leslie Jones, and Kristen Wiig was met with harsh criticism from both critics and fans. That backlash is why the studio decided to move forward with Afterlife instead of a sequel to the reboot. Ghostbusters: Afterlife’s release will return the franchise to its original timeline and include much of the original cast as well as entirely new characters played by Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Carrie Coons, and Paul Rudd.

Few details are known regarding the exact plot of the film or how large a role returning cast members will play in the film. However, the trailers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife indicate that the film is set over 30 years after the events of the 1989 film Ghostbusters II. It seems the story will follow Dr. Egon Spengler’s grandchildren as they discover their grandfather’s past as a member of the Ghostbusters. Following these discoveries, the children are forced to battle an army of ghosts and save their town from total destruction with the assistance of new Ghostbusters: Afterlife friends and returning original characters.

Obviously, this film will use many elements from the original movies but incorporate them in a way that allows new characters to continue the Ghostbusters’ legacy. This will stand in stark contrast with what Paul Feig’s reboot attempted to do in 2016. In fact, Ghostbusters: Afterlife avoids the reboot’s biggest mistake by thoroughly embracing the history of the original Ghostbusters franchise and all the baggage that comes with it instead of eschewing it entirely for the story. Doing so will allow the franchise to evolve while maintaining the nostalgic elements that many audiences missed in the reboot. Incorporating legacy characters is an approach similar to what Disney did with the Star Wars sequel trilogy and MGM/Warner Bros. did with Creed.

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Paul Feig’s Ghostbusters missed the mark because the film chose to reject what came before. It killed off original Ghostbusters star Bill Murray’s cameo character and followed it with Kate McKinnon joking he wasn’t Ghostbusters’ material. The film ultimately goes out of its way to reinvent itself as a modern Melissa McCarthy comedy with over-the-top gags that seem more akin to a parody than a true Ghostbusters movie.

The reverence with which the original source material and characters are treated with in Afterlife isn’t a big surprise given the film’s director is Jason Reitman, the son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the original Ghostbusters movies. The new movie should be in good hands as Jason grew up with Ghostbusters playing a large role in his childhood. He even makes a brief appearance in Ghostbusters II as the young boy at a birthday party who confronts the Ghostbusters about their business going under. Naturally, it stands to reason that Jason will treat his father’s work with the utmost respect and craft a film worthy of continuing the Ghostbusters’ legacy.

Nonetheless, the trailers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife make it clear that the film will also be something entirely original. While there has been some criticism that the trailers make it appear as though the reboot has entirely forgotten that the original Ghostbusters was a comedy, it appears the film strikes a good balance between nostalgia and originality. Finding this balance is something that the 2016 reboot failed to do and it ended up being the film’s biggest mistake. Hopefully, Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife will avoid this mistake and give audiences wanting something tied more closely to the original movies the Ghostbusters sequel they’ve been waiting for.

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