Janine Melnitz is getting promoted.
The Ghostbusters’ beloved receptionist — whose well-known greeting on the staff’s cellphone (“Ghostbusters! Whaddya need?”) has grow to be one among most quoted strains within the franchise’s historical past — will apparently swimsuit up as a full-fledged Ghostbuster within the upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.
That a lot is obvious from the brand new covers of the newest difficulty of Empire Journal which might be coming subsequent month. One options the surviving authentic Ghostbusters staff — Invoice Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson — with Janine actress Annie Potts in a traditional Ghostbusters jumpsuit, subbing in for Egon Spengler, performed by the late, nice Harold Ramis.
The opposite cowl options the brand new Ghostbusters staff launched in 2022’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd) and Callie (Carrie Coon), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), and Phoebe Spengler (Mckenna Grace).
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Potts co-starred in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II and made a short cameo in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when she checked in on the Spengler household at their new house in Oklahoma. A post-credits scene noticed her again in New York Metropolis with Ernie Hudson’s Winston, who we realized is now a profitable businessman. He buys the outdated Ghostbusters’ firehouse with a purpose to refurbish it — little realizing one thing remains to be caught within the entice within the constructing’s basement, a plot level that may presumably get picked up in Frozen Empire.
Right here is Frozen Empire’s official synopsis:
In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler household returns to the place it began – the enduring New York Metropolis firehouse – to staff up with the unique Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret analysis lab to take busting ghosts to the subsequent degree. However when the invention of an historic artifact unleashes an evil drive, Ghostbusters new and outdated should be a part of forces to guard their house and save the world from a second Ice Age.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is scheduled to open in theaters on March 22.
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