All the WaysGhostbusters: Frozen EmpireSets the Stage for MoreGhostbusters

gratefully , Ghostbusters : Frozen Empirehas a more definitive ending thanGhostbusters : Afterlife . That moving picture saw two generation of Ghostbusters eventually vote down Gozer but then just … cease . Multiple end - credits scenes teasedsomething new whole and now , finally , we see that yield .

Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire does , once again , have an end - credit entry scenery that ply a brief tease of the future , but the true lead at what could potentially be next are mostly in the film itself . We ’ll discourse it all below which , of course , requires looter .

So let ’s take this in lodge . At the end of the film , the Ghostbusters end up get the better of Garraka by sucking him into the original fire station containment unit , but that happen at the disbursal of every other trace in the unit escape . At least we think it does . It ’s not explained improbably clearly but Garraka does seem to allow all the touch out of the unit . Then , in the picture show ’s last shot , we see the sewer ghostwriter fly down the street and there are slew of shade flying around him . The deduction is there ’s a caboodle of work for the Ghostbusters to do now . Much more than before . So , there ’s your first source of what could occur next . They need to redo all the workplace of the past 40 years .

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What’s next for the Ghostbusters?Image: Sony

Another seed comes in the casting of James Acaster , Kumail Nanjiani , and Patton Oswalt . All three comedians play characters who help the Ghostbusters in sure ways , and atomic number 27 - author and theatre director Gil Kenan affirm that each could arrive back and connect the team , potentially . “ I hope we ’re favorable enough to make more . And I would n’t count any of them out,”he told io9 . Acaster and Oswalt ’s roles seem evenhandedly straight . Acaster ’s Lars would be the smart , Egon type while Oswalt ’s Dr. Wartzk would be a more inscrutable - thought , Winston type . But then there ’s Nanjiani ’s Nadeem Razmaadi , and we think there ’s more to him than many might realize .

In the celluloid , we learn that Nadeem is a Firemaster , an ancient shielder with a bequest passed down through the generations . With that comes the great power to manipulate fire , a Modern skill he habituate to help the Ghostbusters defeat Garraka . But what ’s next after that ? With a superhuman ability to manipulate fire , Nadeem would n’t just a Ghostbuster . He ’s a super Ghostbuster . Or , and stay with us here , maybe he ’s the next villain .

Think about it . A shy , poor , single guy realizes he has great power and now can do anything he wants ? That ’s the pedigree history for like every single baddie in the history of comedian . There ’s no indicant in Frozen Empire that this will occur — for the most part , Nadeem is lowly and shocked by his powers — but ca n’t you see him becoming a material job in the time to come ? Something to regard for sure .

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Could Kumail Nanjiani’s character be the next villain?Image: Sony

Finally , there ’s that ending - credit sequence . In it , a number one wood has his truck stolen by an United States Army of Mini - Pufts and it ’s revealed the motortruck they ’re steal is a Stay - Puft Marshmallow truck . The whole affair is played as a joke but let ’s call up about it a bite . The Mini - Pufts have , to this level over two films , been mostly comic relief . They cause a little chaos and a few pain , but that ’s it . What ’s their end game though ? By stealing a truck with , we assume , hundreds of M of marshmallow on it , now they could have a unfeignedly monumental , formidable army . Do they represent like a settlement of ants ? Or do they go more Voltron - dash , and all form up to play back the big guy cable from the original moving-picture show ? Either one seems potential . Plus , Nadeem controls attack , right ? marshmallow and fire go together quite well .

All that , along with the now numberless potential drop of Winston ’s Paranormal Research Center , which opens a window to all way of likely young tech , makes for an challenging elbow room onwards if Ghostbusters : Frozen Empire is a smash . And if it ’s not , it ’s just nice to sleep with the Ghostbusters are back and on the case .

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