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Ghostbusters IV: Afterlife is an (if so) upcoming 2021 American supernatural comedy film directed by Jason Reitman, who co-wrote the screenplay with Gil Kenan. The film stars Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, while Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts reprise their roles from the original films. It is the sequel to Ghostbusters (1984). Ghostbusters II (1989), and Ghostbusters III: Hellbent (1999) and the fifth film overall in the Ghostbusters franchise. Set twenty one years after the events of the third film, a single mother and her two children move to a small town in Oklahoma, where they discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and their grandfather's secret legacy.

A fourth Ghostbusters film had been in various stages of development since Ghostbusters III: Hellbent released in 1999. After the death of cast member Harold Ramis in 2014, Sony instead produced a reboot released in 2016, however the film performed badly at the box office, and Reitman began developing a sequel to the original three films.

Ghostbusters IV: Afterlife is (yet to be) scheduled to be released in the United States on November 11, 2021, after being delayed three times from an original July 2020 date due to the ?. The film will be released in RealD 3D.

Plot
Twenty one years after the events of Ghostbusters III: Hellbent, after being evicted from their home, a single mother and her two children are forced to move to a decayed farmhouse in Summerville, Oklahoma, left to them by the children's late grandfather, where a series of unexplained earthquakes are occurring despite not being situated on any fault and strange things are happening in an old mine once belonged to the alleged occultist Ivo Shandor. The children discover their grandfather's history with the original Ghostbusters, who have since been largely forgotten by the world beyond their fan base. When supernatural phenomena relating to New York City's "Manhattan Crossrip of 1984" arises and threatens the town, the kids, along with their family and friends, must use the Ghostbusters' equipment to save it.

Cast

 * Carrie Coon as Callie
 * Mckenna Grace as Phoebe
 * Finn Wolfhard as Trevor
 * Paul Rudd as Mr. Grooberson
 * Logan Kim as Podcast
 * Celeste O'Connor as Lucky
 * Bill Murray as Dr. Peter Venkman
 * Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Raymond "Ray" Stantz
 * Ernie Hudson as Dr. Winston Zeddemore
 * Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett


 * Annie Potts as Janine Melnitz
 * Oliver Cooper as Elton
 * Bokeem Woodbine as Sheriff Domingo
 * Marlon Kazadi as Thickneck
 * Sydney Mae Diaz as Swayze
 * Tracy Letts as Jack