Sigourney Weaver Will NOT Be Returning In Upcoming 'GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE' Sequel

Filming is already well underway for Jason Reitman’s sequel to ‘GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE’ and will focus on legacy Ghostbuster, Winston Zeddemore (Ernie Hudson) and his relaunch and expansion of the Ghostbuster enterprise. One legacy character that is out of the new sequel is Sigourney Weaver as Dana Barrett.

Weaver tells Collider, “I wasn’t asked to be in this Ghostbusters.”

“And I think, you know, a little of us goes a long way,” Weaver adds.

She has a point as her last appearance in the film franchise was relegated to a post credit scene with Bill Murray (Peter Venkman).

Gil Kenan (Monster House, Poltergeist) is directing the sequel to Ghostbusters: Afterlife.

The cast includes Patton Oswalt, Kumail Nanjiani, James Acaster, and Emily Alyn Lind, alongside Ernie Hudson, Mckenna Grace, Paul Rudd and Carrie Coon.

Jason Reitman, who directed Ghostbusters: Afterlife, is producing the upcoming sequel. The film is scheduled to bring the ghosts back to theaters on December 20, 2023.

Last we heard, the upcoming movie will return to New York City and the iconic firehouse made famous in the original Ghostbusters films – thus the working title, Firehouse.

“It’s an absolute honor to pick up the proton pack and step behind the camera for the next chapter of the Spengler family saga. I just wish I could go back to 1984 and tell the kid in the sixth row of the Mann Valley West that one day he was going to get to direct a Ghostbusters film,” said Kenan in a recent statement.

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