While I'm happy to see that this is teasing that this film is canonically the third film in the original timeline of original two Ghostbusters films, I'm not instantly nerdgasming over the fact that the kid from Netflix's Stranger Things (Finn Wolfhard as Mike Wheeler in Stranger Things) is in this like most people. We saw him wearing one of the Busters' costumes for Halloween in that show. That doesn't make him INSTANTLY qualified to be one of the Ghostbusters. If you ask me, Mike has been one of the most boring characters in the last three seasons of that show, despite his relationship with Eleven, but that's a subject for discussion for another day. I don't doubt Wolfhard's acting chops, but I do doubt trusting this franchise's future on the shoulders' of a team of "children and/or teen angst" when people were (and still are) quick to write off an all-female Ghostbusters team.
To the relief of many, that 2016 film was a remake and doesn't exist in this continuity, even though I'm going to be sad that we won't see Kate McKinnon's Dr. Jillian Holtzmann in any capacity in another Ghostbusters' film. She was one of the only good things about that film that gets more shit from fans directed to the actresses that starred in it than the numb-skull who directed it, Paul Weig. To be fair though, Leslie Jones is digging her own grave for her comments comparing how the 2016 film being dismissed as being "Trump-like". Let's not even go that route. If the Nickelodeon-made TMNT film can get a sequel, then I have no doubts about some studio wanting to drop some dough on a sequel to the 2016 Ghostbusters film. Stranger things (no pun intended) have happened. Seriously... We got a damn Independence Day sequel roughly a decade after the fact that no one asked for. So never say never.
As for this trailer, it's a great tease and throwback to the original films, but I'm still pretty skeptical despite smiling after seeing the Ecto-1 back in action after all of these years. We haven't seen the "team" (of kids or even Paul Rudd's character possibly acting as the mentor figure) in action and have no idea what they are going to be up against, even though it was pretty obvious that Zuul's Terror Dogs were haunting the kids at one point of the trailer. It's hilarious to mention that Zuul was teased during the credits as that what the all-female team of Ghostbusters was going to face next in a sequel. Egon Spengler (played by Harold Ramis in the original two films, who died in 2012) - Wolfhard and McKenna Grace will be portraying his grandchildren in this actually - always speculated and theorized about multiple parallel realities and dimensions due to paranormal activities and phenomenons; so it wouldn't be out of the realm of possibilities that they could throw in the ladies into this film for a cameo. I just would hate to see the Pandora's box of negativity that would open up to get that in this when the franchise is looking to get back into fans' good graces again.
Don't get me wrong though. I think a teenage team of Ghostbusters could work. Remember Extreme Ghostbusters? A new team with one of the original members in a mentor role? With Ramis' Egon off the table, then it would have to be someone else for sure. In either case, we won't be waiting long to see how this turns out. It's going to be out summer 2020.
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