Sigourney Weaver Is Additionally Curious About What Occurred to Her ‘Ghostbusters’ Son

Three Ghostbusters movies have adopted the 1989 launch of Ghostbusters 2, and none of them answered a quite simple query: what occurred to Oscar, the son of Sigourney Weaver’s character, Dana Barrett? Movies like 2016’s Ghostbusters: Answer the Call, 2021’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife, and 2024’s Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire have every given us updates on characters from the franchise, however there’s by no means been something about Oscar. And, chatting with Weaver this week, she appeared interested by it too.

Weaver is about to reprise her position because the Na’vi little one, Kiri, in James Cameron’s Avatar: Hearth and Ash, and, on the event of that launch, this io9 reporter in some way discovered himself in the identical room with the residing legend. We talked about Avatar, Cameron, Aliens, and extra, however the nerd in us simply needed to sneak in a Ghostbusters query too. We have been curious: with Jason Reitman and Gil Kenan having rebooted the franchise, and Weaver even briefly reprising her role, was there ever any dialogue of following up on what occurred to Oscar?

“You already know, after we made these movies within the ’80s, sequels nonetheless weren’t cool,” Weaver instructed io9. “And so we took an enormous likelihood making two. After which I assumed that what Jason did with this new line, I’m positive he has thought of that. And it wouldn’t shock me if that occurred. That may be enjoyable.”

She then added a doubtlessly distinctive spin on it. “Possibly each the twins who performed [the character] might be in it,” she joked. “One was very comfortable on the set, and the opposite one didn’t prefer it.”

Weaver’s character confirmed up briefly in the long run credit of Ghostbusters: Afterlife, exhibiting that she and Peter Venkman (Invoice Murray) have been nonetheless buddies. However that was the one time we acquired to see the character. And, after all, there has nonetheless by no means been any revelation on who or what Oscar’s father was. He and Weaver’s Avatar character have that in frequent.

You’ll discover out extra about that Avatar character, Kiki, when Avatar: Hearth and Ash opens in theaters on December 19, and we’ll have extra from the legendary actress quickly. As for Ghostbusters, an animated characteristic movie is within the works, as is a Netflix animated collection, however there haven’t been important public updates on both shortly. Possibly Oscar stars in a single.

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