“These kinds of movies are there to entertain us and to help us understand our own lives,” said director Jason Reitman.
Los Angeles (EFE) .- With Ghostbusters everything stays at home. Jason Reitman takes over from his father, Ivan Reitman, in Ghostbusters: Afterlife (The lcattle), the new installment of this paranormal comedy saga in which the family is the key component both in fiction and in the film’s own gestation.
“In this film we have physical ghosts but also metaphorical ones”director Jason Reitman told EFE by video call.
“Ghosts represent all the things we need to deal with in our lives. And obviously the big shadow looming over me was whether or not I would ever direct a movie from Ghostbusters”, He admitted.
Jason Reitman was not urged to answer the call from Ghostbusters.
Owner of an admirable filmography and marked by humanism, sensitivity and affection for his characters, the director shone in the excellent “Juno” (2007) and “Up in the Air” (2009) for which he was a candidate for four Oscars. .
But in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, which will hit US theaters on Friday, November 19 (in Ecuador this Thursday 18), Jason Reitman finally assumes the legacy of his father, who is a producer on this new film, to recover the eighties hits that starred Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and the late Harold Ramis.
Jason Reitman acknowledged that it was not easy for him to bear the responsibility of carrying on his father’s inheritance.
Born in Czechoslovakia to a Jewish family that survived the Holocaust and took refuge in Canada, Ivan Reitman is not only the architect of “Ghostbusters” but also the mastermind behind comedies such as Meatballs (1979), Stripes (1981), Twins (1988), Junior (1994) the Six Days Seven Nights (1998).
“It was only recently that I found the safety to grab this saga, grab the proton backpack and make this movie,” said Jason Reitman.
Blood ties
Ghostbusters: Afterlife focuses on a single mother, played by Carrie Coon, and his two sonsstarring Finn Wolfhard and the film’s great reveal, a fantastic Mckenna Grace.
This family arrives in a town in the middle of nowhere and, little by little, discovers that in their ancestors there is a connection with those Ghostbusters who caused a sensation in New York.
Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Ernie Hudson return to the world of Ghostbusters with supporting roles in a story full of winks to the fans of these films.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife follow the narration of Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) skipping the recent remake feminine Ghostbusters (2016) with Melissa McCarthy at the helm.
This film had a major hit at the box office and also suffered in social networks a regrettable campaign of sexist harassment towards the entire cast, and racist attacks on actress Leslie Jones.
Back to Ghostbusters: Afterlife, Jason Reitman stressed that he did not want to abuse the nostalgia and memories of the first two films of Ghostbusters Rather, it aspired to “expand everything we know” about the saga.
He also praised the signings of Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace by claiming that they are “incredibly talented” young actors.
“They are very intelligent, charming and funny,” he said.
On the other hand, Jason Reitman defended that in a Hollywood dominated by superheroes and digital effects there is still room for innocence, naive humor and the magic touch of films for all audiences such as Ghostbusters.
“Of course I do. We have a generation of people who grew up on movies from the 80s and that they are absolutely in love with them, ”she argued.
The director closed the circle by resorting, once again, to the star ingredient of the return of Ghostbusters: the family.
“These kinds of movies are there to entertain us and to help us understand our own lives. There is nothing more basic than the family and to understand our parents and our children, and this is a film that I made for my father and my daughter ”, he concluded.
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