Ghostbusters Resurrected

Up in the Air and Juno director Jason Reitman is making a follow-up to his father Ivan’s classic supernatural comedy, exploring the world decades after Ray, Egon, Winston, and Peter saved it.

- Anthony Breznican

DO YOU BELIEVE IN UFOS, ASTRAL PROJECTIONS, MENTAL TELEPATHY, ESP, clairvoyance, spirit photography, telekinetic movement, full-trance mediums, the Loch Ness monster, and the theory of Atlantis?

If so, good news—there’s a new Ghostbusters movie in the works. Jason Reitman will direct an upcoming film set in the world that was saved decades previously by the proton-pack-wearing working stiffs in the original 1984 movie, which was directed by his father, Ivan Reitman.

“I’ve always thought of myself as the first Ghostbusters fan, when I was a 6-year-old visiting the set. I wanted to make a movie for all the other fans,” Reitman tells EW. “This is the next chapter in the original franchise. It is not a reboot. What happened in the ’80s happened in the ’80s, and this is set in the present day.”

Sony Pictures has dated the film for summer 2020, with plans to start shooting in a few months.