It still hasn’t quite sunk in that we’re finally getting that third Ghostbusters we’ve been asking for over the past few decades.
This Friday, we’ll be meeting the grandchildren of the late Egon Spengler (Harold Ramis) in Ghostbusters: Afterlife.
In addition, while Slimer doesn’t appear in the canonized sequel, director Jason Reitman has created a brand new ghost, Muncher, who has been at the forefront of the marketing campaign. Snuck into an article earlier this month at Indiewire and confirmed by the filmmaker in an interview with IGN (below), Muncher is voiced by none other than Josh Gad (Frozen, Beauty and the Beast, Hulu’s zombie film Little Monsters).
“Josh and I ran into each other on the Sony lot, and I was like ‘Hey, do you want to come voice this ghost?’ He was like ‘yes,’ and he literally just walked in the room,” Reitman tells IGN. “We were literally in a room at the time, he walked right in, he started doing sounds, and that is where the sound of Muncher came from.”
In the film, when a single mom (Carrie Coon) and her two kids (Mckenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard) arrive in a small town, they begin to discover their connection to the original ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
Paul Rudd also stars with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver and Annie Potts all reprising their iconic and beloved roles.
Pictured: Josh Gad in Hulu’s Little Monsters