
Maybe, despite Feig playing it down, their big portal gateway thingy could be used to engineer a crossover between Ghostbusters old and new. And, traditionally, with Zuul you’d also get Vinz Clortho and Gozer.Īnd as Feig touched upon in his IGN interview, these characters from another dimension could open up some interesting doors by turning up in the rebooted universe. The original Ghostbusters, Peter Venkman (Bill Murray), Winston Zeddimore (Ernie Hudson), and Ray Stanz, arrive just in time to help the kids finish the job.
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So, if the new Ghostbusters movie does well at the box office and a sequel is ordered by Sony, it seems fair to assume that Zuul will be in it.

But I don’t know, it was kind of a little comfort food, Easter Egg, that gives us an opening if we wanted to do another movie.”įeig also mentioned that he thinks Zuul is “such a great character,” and added that “we thought ‘well it would be fun if you could do a sequel,’ and who knows, to kind of have him in the mix?”

Again it’s not about creating the cinematic universe where suddenly there’s a wormhole and the original Ghostbusters show up, although somebody might do that at some point. Speaking to IGN, Feig explained that, “We wanted to say possibly there’s something you know from the first one can come in. This sounds like a readymade plot for a follow-up movie to the 2016 Ghostbusters flick, although director Paul Feig has been playing it a bit coy on that front. Patty has heard a reference to Zuul on a recording, suggesting that this demigod and its chums could be heading to this alternate universe inhabited by the new Ghostbusters. The two got frisky, before returning to their natural forms as Satanic Terror Dogs. Later still, Zuul teamed up with Vinz Clortho (aka The Keymaster), another demigod, who had possessed Dana’s neighbor, Louis Tully (played by Rick Moranis). Zuul referred to itself as The Gatekeeper and explained that it needed to prepare for the coming of The Destructor (aka Gozer). Later, Zuul possessed Dana just in time for her date with Bill Murray’s Peter Venkman. Zuul yelled its own name at Dana from within her fridge, causing Dana to scream and flee the scene. Zuul-later revealed to be a demonic demigod, and a minion of an even bigger baddie by the name of Gozer-first showed up in the apartment of Sigourney Weaver’s Dana Barrett. You probably don’t need me to tell you that Zuul was the main villain from Ivan Reitman’s original 1984 Ghostbusters movie, but heck, I’ll tell you anyway. Three of the four original Ghostbusters have been on the promotional tour for the latest Ghostbusters movie so it's not a spoiler to learn that Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray and Ernie Hudson make. Maybe its the present tense, maybe its because the movies plot is so much. The other three Ghostbusters respond with shrugs, having never heard this name before. Ive read a few movie novelizations in my time, but this one is by far my favorite. But then Patty looks up and asks her colleagues, “What is Zuul?”

The audience begins to wonder if we’ve waited all this time for a fart gag. Patty is listening to something on the recorder.
