Up in the Air and Juno filmmaker Jason Reitman has been working on a secret Ghostbusters movie. As announced by EW, there’s already a video teaser for the 2020 project.
The trailer begins on a dark and quiet night outside a weather-worn barn. Someone is working and tinkering on a machine that giving a lot of trouble to start.
We can hear the late Elmer Bernstein’s score from the library scene of the 1984 original. A strand of ectoplasm dangles from a fence, the sign shows that something supernatural is also nearby.
The person working on the device powers it up, and the glow of what seems like a burst from a broken proton pack floods the barn and lifts the tarp covering another familiar machine, it is the rusting back end of the original Ecto-1.
Reitman shot the teaser looking to raise rather than answer questions: Whose lonely property is this? What became of Stantz, Spengler, Zeddemore, and Venkman? Why is a vehicle once used to save the world from demonic takeover gathering dust in the middle of nowhere?
Sony is also developing an animated Ghostbusters film, but the film will come out after this new live-action project, and a different team will be involved in creating it.
“The Ghostbusters universe is big enough to hold a lot of different stories,” Jason says.
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