Sigourney Weaver Confirms Her Return In New ‘Ghostbusters’ Movie

You know who we, as a society, don’t discuss sufficient Sigourney Weaver? Sigourney Weaver is superior. She was in Alien! She was in Aliens! She was in Galaxy Quest! She can be in roughly 24 Avatar films! And, in fact, she was in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II, and in accordance with the Oscar-nominated actress herself, she’ll be in Jason Reitman’s Ghostbusters, as properly.

Ahead of this weekend’s Ghostbusters Fan Fest, which celebrates the 35th anniversary of the action-comedy, Weaver confirmed to Parade journal that she’s returning as Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters 3, because it’s unofficially being referred to as for now. “It’s going to be crazy working with the guys again,” she mentioned, referring to Bill Murray and Dan Aykroyd, which can be information contemplating not one of the unique solid members (minus Harold Ramis, who handed away in 2014) have mentioned they’re concerned within the mission. But Murray and Aykroyd, in addition to Ernie Hudson, have all said they’re “in” for no matter Reitman is cooking up.

Speaking of:

Slimer higher be concerned, someway.

Weaver additionally mentioned the notorious “Chestbuster” scene from Alien. “We get to the set and the crew is wearing these black raincoats,” she recalled. “We knew that something was going to come out of someone’s chest, but we didn’t know what it was going to look like. My only line in the script was, ‘Oh, my god!’ The whole cast was in shock because we were convinced it was real. I still don’t know how they did it.” Here’s how they did it.

The new Ghostbusters is scheduled to return out July 2020.

(Via Parade)