Bill Murray has opened up on the upcoming Ghostbusters sequel movie, Afterlife in a recent interview.
As reported by NME, Afterlife is set to star Finn Wolfhard, Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace and Paul Rudd, and follows the story of a small family moving to a town in Oklahoma.
Explaining how the conversation between him and the film’s director Jason Reitman began, Murray said, “I remember him calling me and saying, ‘I’ve got an idea for another Ghostbusters. I’ve had this idea for years. I thought, ‘What the heck could that possibly be?’ I remember him when he was a kid. I remember his Bar Mitzvah. I was like, ‘What the heck? What does this kid know?’”
He continued, “But he had a really, really wonderful idea that he wrote with another wonderful guy that I got to work with, Gil Kenan, who made City Of Ember. The two of them wrote a Ghostbusters movie that really brings it back to life. It really has the feel of the first one, more than the second one or the girls’ one. It has a different feel than two out of four.”
It’s also worth mentioning that the film director, Jason Reitman is the son of the franchise’s original director, Ivan Reitman. And when Murray was asked on Jason carrying out his father’s legacy, he said, “I think he’s really got something.”
“It was hard. It was really hard. That’s why I think it’s gonna be good. We were just in it for a little while, but it was physically painful. Wearing those packs is extremely uncomfortable. We had batteries the size of batteries. They now have batteries the size of earrings. It’s still a really heavy thing to wear, all the time.”
Murray added, “The special effects in this one are a lot of wind and dirt in your face, and there was a lot of going down and getting back up. I was like, ‘What is this? What am I doing? These are like Bulgarian deadlifts, or a Russian kettlebell, getting up and down with this thing on my back.’ It was very uncomfortable.”
Like many other creative projects over the past year or so, Ghostbusters: Afterlife had been postponed and was originally slated to be released last year. It now has an updated release date, pencilled in for November 11th, 2021.
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