Our fave bureaucratic villain is back in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire trailer
There's plenty of old familiar faces in the latest trailer for Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
Every good comedy needs a villain audiences love to hate, and the original 1984 Ghostbusters gave us William Atherton's sneering, nosy-parker EPA inspector, Walter Peck. That film turns 40 this year, so it's fitting that Sony is releasing Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, its latest sequel, in March, a follow-up to 2021's Ghostbusters: Afterlife. We're getting even more of Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, and Ernie Hudson this time around, along with the welcome return of Janine Melnitz (Annie Potts) as well as Peck.
(Some spoilers for Ghostbusters: Afterlife below.)
As we previously reported, Afterlife introduced us to a new generation of ghostbusters descended from Egon Spengler (the late Harold Ramis)-namely, the science-loving Phoebe (McKenna Grace) and her mechanically inclined brother Trevor (Finn Wolfhard). Mom Callie (Carrie Coon), aka Egon's daughter, moved the family out to Oklahoma when she inherited Egon's old house. The kids discovered their grandfather's old ghost-busting gear just in time to battle the attempted return of none other than Gozer the Gozerian from the original film. Afterlife grossed over $200 million at the box office against its $75 million production budget. Sony announced the sequel the following spring, with a script by Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan. Kenan would eventually replace Reitman as director. Per the official premise: