Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire movie storyline. The Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level. But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is an upcoming American supernatural comedy film directed by Gil Kenan, who co-wrote it with Jason Reitman. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021) and the fifth film in the Ghostbusters franchise.
The film stars Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Carrie Coon, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, alongside Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts, and William Atherton reprising their characters from the earlier films, while Kumail Nanjiani and Patton Oswalt also join the cast. In the film, years after averting a dimensional crossrip in Summerville, Oklahoma, the veteran Ghostbusters must join forces with their new recruits to save the world in New York City from a powerful chilling adversary.
Following the success of Afterlife, Sony Pictures announced the sequel in April 2022, with Reitman returning as director. Kenan later took over as director from Reitman that December, while the rest of the cast reprised their roles. New cast members including Oswalt, Nanjiani, James Acaster, and Emily Alyn Lind were announced in March 2023, with principal photography commencing that month and wrapping it in June.
It is the first film in the Ghostbusters franchise made without the involvement of Ivan Reitman, who directed the first two films and produced subsequent films until his death in February 2022; Frozen Empire will be dedicated to his memory and celebrate the 40th anniversary of Ghostbusters.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)
Directed by: Gil Kenan
Starring: Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace, Annie Potts, Paul Rudd, Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Finn Wolfhard, Patton Oswalt, Emily Alyn Lind, Ernie Hudson, Celeste O’Connor, James Acaster, William Atherton
Screenplay by: Gil Kenan, Jason Reitman
Production Design by: Eve Stewart
Cinematography by: Eric Steelberg
Film Editing by: Nathan Orloff, Shane Reid
Costume Design by: Alexis Forte, Ruth Myers
Set Decoration by: Pancho Chamorro, Marina Parker, Michael Standish
Art Direction by: Tim Adams, Abbie Bellwood, Meg Jones
Music by: Dario Marianelli
MPAA Rating: None.
Distributed by: Sony Pictures Releasing
Release Date: March 22, 2024
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