JA Slow wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 2:51 pm- Janine being Egon's widow feels cheap only because the movie doesn't have to show us how the relationship began and ended.
- This is another "back in business" story. Something I thought they'd avoid after all the complains from GB2 doing that.
- Seeing Ray's Occult Books store confirms GB2 is cannon but I don't expect to see or hear much about what happened in 1989.
- Speaking of Murray, this is the last we'll see of him. I'm sure he told Aykroyd or Reitman "After this, I'm done. I don't wanna ever hear about Ghostbusters 4. I'm dead in that one. Bye!"
I wish I could be a bit more excited but I'm a realist, no bullshit, and this is what I think we're gonna get. If by some miracle it's better, great. I'd love to be wrong on this but I don't see it happening. I had more confirmed faith in Bill & Ted Face the Music than I do in this, which is closer to my heart.
As others have pointed out, the trailer implies that Janine was checking in on Egon, but there is no actual evidence in it that she is the grandmother in the equation. For all we know, she's the executor of the estate.
Although I do have my own skepticism/concern about the plot structuring this as another underdog thing, Jason explicitly says in his trailer breakdown that this is (in his view) not a going-into-business story. The implication is that he consciously worked to avoid that.
I don't have a source on this, but someone on facebook posted a comment about Jason saying conspiracy theories surround some of the events of the first two movies. A certain degree of this would both help to explain whatever degree to which people forgot about ghosts or Ghostbusters in the 30 years since...and I wouldn't be shocked if a walking Statue of Liberty was a bigger "conspiracy theory" lightning rod. Admittedly, that's mostly speculation on my part.
While I would certainly assume this is it for Bill, I don't get the impression that he's holding many grudges at this point. I doubt he told anyone not to expect him again, more likely he just won't make himself available if the series continues. I get the impression he's mellowed out in the last 5-10 years, possibly due to Harold's passing.
All things considered, I don't really know why any of this stuff sounds especially concerning. Quite a bit of what you covered in your post has been clear about the movie from the beginning, and half of it is guesses to begin with.
RichardLess wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 3:16 pmThis movie can’t be designed as a “one & done” kind of deal, so having kids as the new GB’s can’t exactly be where the franchise is heading.
Why not? Same thing with the 2016 movie: We're going to get new people as the Ghostbusters, and that's a good thing, IMO. I'm ready to move into uncharted territory. I was intrigued by the "globe-trotting" stuff they were suggesting for a 2016 sequel, which I think could be repurposed into an
Afterlife sequel (although not as easily, given Phoebe isn't an adult quite yet): why wouldn't someone in another country potentially have some sort of elaborate ghost issue that also ties into some kind of (entirely new) mythology, and have the Ghostbusters brought in to investigate?
zeta otaku wrote: ↑July 30th, 2021, 4:29 pmI'm curious if we find out about the containment unit in NYC. With Egon gone and the other three effectively gone their separate ways, is Ray the only one staying local to take care of it?
If Ray's running the bookstore, my guess is Egon made the containment unit portable, or at least found a way to take the unit, spirits and all, to Oklahoma.
EDIT: Don't know if anyone else has posted this, not a super-important update, but I see there are revised versions of the teaser poster floating around now.