SO, WE HAVE THE TRAILER! 2023 version

               

 

                From the beginning there seems to be nothing to suggest this has anything to do with the Ghostbusters.  It starts in New York on a hot summer day when suddenly, the world turns to winter with ice spikes randomly popping up.  This ends when it reaches the Firehouse, and now we know it’s a Ghostbusters movie.  We see the Ecto-1 in action.  At Ray’s Occult bookstore, we get an explanation of the threat we are facing.  Ray calls it “the Death Chill”!  There are some more sudden action scenes as we see the Ghostbusters confront the threat.  At the end it appears that the Death Chill might be an entity, perhaps the main bad guy they are fighting.  The movie’s name is Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.   

                I have a feeling that the opening scene from the preview is going to be the “raising the stakes” moment of the movie.  Like the destruction of the containment unit in the first, the rising slime of the second, and the breaking of Egon’s construction to contain Gozer in Afterlife.  A scene where ghosts terrify the residents, but this time they are armed with cold.  I say that because when we see Ecto-1 leave the Firehouse it’s not driving on frozen roads. 

Not frozen

 

                It looks like the movie is going to begin with Ghostbusters just being the active Ghostbusters.  Which I think is a great thing.  One of the big mistakes of Ghostbusters II was how the movie broke the team up.  This forced the film to have to do a “reunite the Ghostbusters” arch so a third of the movie is wasted finding where they were and getting them back.  For those of us who watched the cartoon and had a new Ghostbusters adventure every week, it really seemed pointless.  Now it seems that lesson was learned, and Frozen Empire is going to pick up where Afterlife left off.

  However, let’s look at some of our questions.

1. So, who is in the active team?  It seems to be made up of the three remaining originals, Callie Spengler, Gary Grooberson, Phobe, and Trevor.  At least those are the people we see in jumpsuits with packs.  We saw Lucky but it didn’t look like she was an active ghostbuster. In fact, she might be a casualty. I hope not, I like Lucky.  I didn’t see Podcast at all.  I have a feeling that the film will begin with the original Ghostbusters with Callie and Gary with kids in more training.  Then as the treat grows the kids will have to be active. 

   

   Really, she has already proven herself

   
     
2. I am surprised to see Callie as a ghostbuster.  I always saw her in more of a Janine type role.  I mean no offense, but it seemed like Spengler genius skipped a generation with her.  I am not saying she is dumb, but she has always struck me as more of a normal person, whose father was a genius and her kids inherited but she herself missed out.  Maybe she might be playing the Winston role?

   

   Who are you going to call?

   
   
3. What role is Patton Oswalt going to play?  Is he just one of Ray’s employees in the bookstore?
   
   
   
4. Who is the blonde guy with the glasses?  He looks like Egon from The Real Ghostbusters.  Is he Callie’s younger brother? Half-brother?  How many kids did Egon have?  Maybe he is Oscar?

   

   See the guy in the back? Who is he?

   
   
5.  I wonder how popular red jackets are going to start becoming.  Maybe they can get some good sales.