Sony Pictures is ramping up pre-production on 2021’s "Ghostbusters: Afterlife" sequel with the film’s writer and exec producer Gil Kenan will be handing over directing duties.
Jason Reitman, who directed the 2021 movie, will move into the writer-producer role alongside co-scribe Kenan and Jason Blumenfeld.
Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon are set to return for the sequel.
The first movie — featuring Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, and Harold Ramis as ghost-catching parapsychologists — was critically and commercially successful, later spawning sequels, animated series, video games, and a 2016 reboot.
The sequel took place 30 years after 1989’s “Ghostbusters II” and followed the Spengler family moving to a small town and discovering their grandfather’s legacy.
It was revealed on Ghostbusters Day by Reitman that the codename for the upcoming sequel is "Firehouse", in an allusion to the iconic headquarters of the titular team that headed up the 1984 and 1989 classics.
In April, it was announced that Ghostbusters would be continuing.
The upcoming movie is set to continue the story of the Spengler family with the cast of the 2021 return of the series, which included Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Finn Wolfhard, and Carrie Coon.
The follow-up to the latest outing in the beloved film franchise is slated to be released in theaters on December 20, 2023.
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