Gil and I wanted to make a movie about family." That family, it turns out, belongs to Dr. Egon Spengler, the bespectacled, socially awkward parapsychologist played by the late Harold Ramis in the ...

“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” is the kind of big popcorn movie that is gloriously stuffed with eye-popping visuals – a gluttonous phantasm (with the voice of Josh Gad) careens through a small ...

Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a continuation of the original series -- unlike Paul Feig's 2016 reboot ... "Spengler" is among the PKE meters and proton packs. While Harold Ramis, who played Egon ...

There's no doubt fans would have loved to see him reprise his role as the slightly awkward Egon Spengler ... Ghostbuster to sign on to appear in the reboot — fitting, considering Aykroyd ...

Writer-director Reitman won’t yet outright confirm the family of new characters are Egon’s descendants, ties hinted at in the film’s first trailer in December. Following a first-look at the ...

“James is not playing a Spengler, but he really falls in line with the Egon Spengler ‘type’,” laughs Reitman. It’s a whole hive of ectoplasmic activity, with multiple generations coming ...

But its most dazzling moment is a much quieter, more impactful one, as the ghost of Egon Spengler rejoins his family (played by Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace and Finn Wolfhard) and fellow ...