Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire's director remembers Ivan Reitman.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire director Gil Kenan shared the story of how he pitched the sequel to Ivan Reitman. ComicBook.com managed to catch the filmmaker before the anticipated movie hit theaters. In our conversation, he explained how Jason Reitman recruited him to tell this story after Ghostbusters: Afterlife. The response to that movie was so enormous that a sequel was always going to be in the works. Kenan is a longtime Ghostbusters fan.
"I mean, I watched the first Ghostbusters as one of my first big movies. Uh My dad took me to see it when I was a little kid and it completely floored me," he added."I remember exactly where I was sitting for Ghostbusters too at a movie theater in the San Fernando Valley. When Bill Murray's Peter Venkman character says you couldn't go anywhere, you could have caught it. The beautiful San Fernando Valley and the whole audience started erupting in cheers.
"We pitched the entire three act structure of this film and got uh the warmest reception, his blessing, his validation for the direction we wanted to take these characters in and this franchise in," he shared."And so that was wind in our sails for making this film, and Ivan's voice, his presence, his brilliance was always there with us making this film. So, I it's only fitting that this film should end with his name. And, that he get the producer credit that he deserves.
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