Next year’s sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife is titled Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and it will bring the franchise – and its original Ghostbusters – back to New York City. Though, this version of New York City will be a wintry wonderland judging by a brand new poster unveiled today.
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler family returns to where it all started – the iconic New York City firehouse – to team up with the original Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret research lab to take busting ghosts to the next level.
But when the discovery of an ancient artifact unleashes an evil force, Ghostbusters new and old must join forces to protect their home and save the world from a second Ice Age.
The previously released trailer indicates that Frozen Empire is not actually set during the Winter. Rather, it brings the icy cold grip of Winter into the warm summer months. A deadly ice storm blows into New York City in the first half of the teaser trailer, encasing the iconic Ghostbusters Firehouse in ice. “For the first time in New York history, people froze to death in the middle of July,” Patton Oswalt narrates the trailer. Dan Aykroyd is back as Ray Stantz in this first look at Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, and he refers to the new threat as the “Death Chill.”
“The power to kill by fear itself,” he explains. “Your veins turn to rivers of ice. Your bones crack. And the last thing you see is your own tear ducts… freezing up.”
Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist) directed the upcoming sequel.
The cast includes Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, James Acaster, and Emily Alyn Lind, alongside Bill Murray, Finn Wolfhard, Ernie Hudson, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd, Celeste O’Connor, Logan Kim, Annie Potts, Dan Aykroyd and Carrie Coon.
Jason Reitman, who directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, is producing the upcoming sequel. The current release date is March 29, 2024, pushed back from December 2023.
