Ghostbusters: Afterlife And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 19 November 2021

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Ghostbusters: Afterlife reconnects with the original timeline of the Ghostbusters films from the 80s while introducing a bunch of new characters. Carrie Coon, Mckenna Grace, and Finn Wolfhard play a family who teams up with Paul Rudd to fight a new supernatural threat. The movie is directed by Jason Reitman — son of Ivan Reitman, who directed the first two Ghostbuster films.

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0:00.0	The Ghostbusters franchise produced two blockbuster movies in the 80s as well as a 2016 reboot.
0:11.2	The latest film is called Ghostbusters Afterlife.
0:14.1	It brings together a new generation of Ghostbusters who discover that they need to pick up where
0:18.4	the old 80s films left off.
0:20.3	I'm Glenn Wellen.
0:21.3	And I'm Stephen Thompson.
0:22.3	Today we are talking about Ghostbusters Afterlife on Pop Culture Happy Hour from NPR.
0:28.2	Here with Glenn and me is NPR's White House correspondent Aisha Rasko.
0:32.0	Hello Aisha.
0:33.0	Hello.
0:34.0	Also joining us is NPR contributor Serena Torres.
0:36.2	Hi Serena.
0:37.2	Hey Stephen.
0:38.2	It is great to have you both.
0:39.2	So the history of the Ghostbusters franchise is complicated.
0:43.4	The original 1984 movie starring Bill Murray, Dan Ackroyd, Harold Ramos, and Ernie Hudson
0:49.3	was a massive comedy blockbuster.
0:51.6	But from there, it gets messy.
0:54.0	Ghostbusters 2 came out in 1989.
0:56.7	It got mediocre reviews, but it performed well at the box office still efforts to continue
1:02.9	the series languished.
1:04.0	And we didn't get another Ghostbusters movie until 2016 when a reboot directed by Paul
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