Next summer, when Paul Feig’s female-fronted Ghostbusters reboot hits the big screen, it will bring along cameos from the three surviving original paranormal investigators, their secretary, and more.
We’ll also see a few other familiar elements, like Ecto-1, proton packs, and jump suits that look rather similar to the ones the old guard wore. But there is one thing we won’t see, one original character who isn’t being resurrected: Ghostbusters will not feature an appearance by Slimer.
Reports began to make the rounds that the ectoplasmic ghoul who haunts the Sedgwick Hotel in Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters, and who became a part of the team in the ensuing cartoon, after The Simpsons’ Dan Castellanetta was listed in IMDb as voicing the ghost. Bloody Disgusting checked with three separate sources confirming that Slimer is in fact in Ghostbusters, but Feig tool to Twitter to debunk these reports.
Reports began to make the rounds that the ectoplasmic ghoul who haunts the Sedgwick Hotel in Ivan Reitman’s 1984 Ghostbusters, and who became a part of the team in the ensuing cartoon, after The Simpsons’ Dan Castellanetta was listed in IMDb as voicing the ghost. Bloody Disgusting checked with three separate sources confirming that Slimer is in fact in Ghostbusters, but Feig tool to Twitter to debunk these reports.