Finn Wolfhard and Mckenna Grace return as Trevor and Phoebe Spengler in Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire and the movie is very much a passing of the torch to a new generation of ghoul hunters.
We first met Trevor and Phoebe in 2021's Ghostbusters: Afterlife and now they’re back with their mother, Callie (Carrie Coon), and stepdad, Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd), in the New York fire station that has been Ghostbusters HQ all the way back to the first movie in 1984.
They’re also back gunning their cool Cadillac Miller-Meteor Sentinel Ecto-1 ambulance around Gotham, kicking ghost ass.
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In fact, McKenna has known all about the iconic car for a long time, having had her picture taken with it at the Sony lot in Hollywood many times.
"I know what picture you’re talking of. I’m in a blue dress and pigtails," she says. "It was taken at the Sony lot and I must have been about six. Every time I went to the Sony lot I’d have my picture taken with the car. It was kind of my tradition. Every time I’d go for an audition I’d stop by the car."
In the film, which also stars original ghostbusters Bill Murray and Dan Ackroyd, the crew investigate an ancient artefact with deadly powers.
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire could be called classic Ghostbusters - it has a determinedly old-school look following the perhaps overly reverential Ghostbusters: Afterlife in 2021.
The film was shot in Reading, with a whole New York block built on a soundstage, including the Ghostbusters’ firehouse HQ in the city’s Tribeca area.
Speaking about shooting the new movie, McKenna says, "It was really fun and really cool. I was here for four or five months and we shot in Reading and Enfield and we had a block of New York built on a sound stage, which was super sick.
"We had the firehouse built to scale, each of the floors and a warehouse. The attention to detail was crazy. As a Ghostbusters fan it was an honour and as an actor it was a really cool place to be filming."
Ghostbusters fans can be very passionate. "Very, yeah, yeah," says Finn. "So far the fans have been insanely supportive of this film and we’ve been able to show it in Paris and New York and now London and the reception from real Ghostbusters fans has been amazing."
And, yes, Finn does get slimed. "It was fun," he says. "The actual process of it is pretty interesting practical effect. You have a blood bag attached to you but its slime that’s shooting out. It was fun to shoot those scenes."
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is in cinemas now
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