{"id":13734,"date":"2022-12-06T15:40:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T20:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734"},"modified":"2023-12-12T03:33:19","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T08:33:19","slug":"gil-kenan-tapped-to-direct-new-ghostbusters-sequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734","title":{"rendered":"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>Paranormalists rejoice: There\u2019s life after <em><strong>Ghostbusters: Afterlife.\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>Sony Pictures has announced that Gil Kenan, <em><strong>Afterlife<\/strong><\/em>\u2019s co-writer and executive producer, has been tapped to direct an upcoming sequel to that film, which had been created in 2021 as a relaunch of the original 1980s franchise.\u00a0<\/p>\r\n<p><em><strong>Afterlife<\/strong> <\/em>grossed $200 worldwide on the heels of its release just a year ago. Jason Reitman will be joining Jason Blumenfeld as co-writer and producer on the proposed sequel; Reitman\u2019s father Ivan, who died in February, had directed the first two films in the franchise.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy chloroquine online <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.agilehealthcare.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/chloroquine.html\">https:\/\/v2.agilehealthcare.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/chloroquine.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<br><br \/><br \/>In accepting his new role, Kenan said: \u201cIt\u2019s an absolute honor to pick up the proton pack and step behind the camera for the next chapter of the Spengler family saga. I just wish I could go back to 1984 and tell the kid in the sixth row of the Mann Valley West that one day he was going to get to direct a <em><strong>Ghostbusters<\/strong> <\/em>film.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Jason Reitman couched his enthusiasm in generational terms, telling reporters \u201cA few years ago, my father handed me the keys to Ecto-1, and together we made <em><strong>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/strong><\/em>. Words will never express how grateful I am to have made a film with my father by my side.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy valtrex online <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.agilehealthcare.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/valtrex.html\">https:\/\/v2.agilehealthcare.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/valtrex.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<br> It\u2019s now time to hand those keys to my creative partner and fellow Ghostbuster Gil Kenan, a brilliant director who will keep the Spengler spirit alive.<br><div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bactroban online <a href=\"https:\/\/v2.agilehealthcare.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/bactroban.html\">https:\/\/v2.agilehealthcare.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/png\/bactroban.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<br> I can only hope to provide him the same producorial care and support that my father showed me.\u201d<br \/><br \/>Gil Kenan\u2019s earlier directorial credits have included <em><strong>Monster House<\/strong><\/em>,<em><strong> City of Ember<\/strong><\/em>, and <em><strong>A Boy Called Christmas<\/strong><\/em>. He earned Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for the first of these, an animated feature. <br \/><br \/>Some original cast members of <em><strong>Ghostbusters: Afterlife<\/strong><\/em>, including Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon, are reportedly on board to appear in the upcoming sequel, with casting now underway for additional characters. It\u2019s also been reported that the New York City firehouse seen in the original film will be making an encore appearance as well.<br \/><br \/>Production is expected to begin in early 2023 for a projected release in December of that year.<br \/><br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/author\/edward-moran\/\">Check out more of Edward&#8217;s articles<\/a>.\u00a0<br \/><br \/><\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paranormalists rejoice: There\u2019s life after Ghostbusters: Afterlife.\u00a0Sony Pictures has announced that Gil Kenan, Afterlife\u2019s co-writer and executive producer, has been tapped to direct an upcoming sequel to that film, which had been created in 2021 as a relaunch of the original 1980s franchise.\u00a0 Afterlife grossed $200 worldwide on the heels of its release just a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[469,463,2980,466,465,472,300],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning | Cinema Daily US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning | Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Paranormalists rejoice: There\u2019s life after Ghostbusters: Afterlife.\u00a0Sony Pictures has announced that Gil Kenan, Afterlife\u2019s co-writer and executive producer, has been tapped to direct an upcoming sequel to that film, which had been created in 2021 as a relaunch of the original 1980s franchise.\u00a0 Afterlife grossed $200 worldwide on the heels of its release just a...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Cinema Daily US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-12-06T20:40:33+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-12-12T08:33:19+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1232\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"836\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Edward Moran\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734\",\"name\":\"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning | Cinema Daily US\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-12-06T20:40:33+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-12-12T08:33:19+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg\",\"width\":1232,\"height\":836},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/\",\"name\":\"Cinema Daily US\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc\",\"name\":\"Edward Moran\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg\",\"caption\":\"Edward Moran\"},\"description\":\"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning | Cinema Daily US","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning | Cinema Daily US","og_description":"Paranormalists rejoice: There\u2019s life after Ghostbusters: Afterlife.\u00a0Sony Pictures has announced that Gil Kenan, Afterlife\u2019s co-writer and executive producer, has been tapped to direct an upcoming sequel to that film, which had been created in 2021 as a relaunch of the original 1980s franchise.\u00a0 Afterlife grossed $200 worldwide on the heels of its release just a...","og_url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734","og_site_name":"Cinema Daily US","article_published_time":"2022-12-06T20:40:33+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-12-12T08:33:19+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1232,"height":836,"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Edward Moran","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Edward Moran","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734","name":"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning | Cinema Daily US","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg","datePublished":"2022-12-06T20:40:33+00:00","dateModified":"2023-12-12T08:33:19+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Ghostbuster-Afterlife.jpg","width":1232,"height":836},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?p=13734#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Ghostbusters: Afterlife Sequel to Be Directed by Gil Kenan, Previous Cast Returning"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/","name":"Cinema Daily US","description":"","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/8bf0a19223aa026749c276918426a5bc","name":"Edward Moran","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/Edward-Moran-150x150.jpg","caption":"Edward Moran"},"description":"Edward Moran began his journalistic career many decades ago as a theater and cinema reviewer for Show Business and the New York Theater Review. More recently he contributed film reviews to hosokinema.com and Movie Sleuth. His writings have appeared in publications as diverse as the Times Literary Supplement, Publishers Weekly, the Paris Review, and the Massachusetts Review. Moran also edited a memoir by Oscar-nominated documentary filmmaker Christine Choy. He served as literary advisor to her film Hyam Plutzik: American Poet, which was the keynote film in the American Perspectives series at the 2007 Zebra Poetry Film Festival in Berlin.","sameAs":["https:\/\/www.cinemadailyus.com"],"url":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/?author=3"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13734\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cinemadailyus.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}