It appears that Ghostbusters may have a life after the monumentally disastrous 2016 abortion of a film:

First Look at Ghostbusters: Afterlife

“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” centers not on New York City, but somewhere objectively better: rural Oklahoma. The main cast is a single mom and her two kids; there is some mystery about who the dad is/was. It might be that Egon was the absent father (or perhaps grandfather, given that the mom is played by a woman born in 1981, about the time when the original cast were of marryin’ and breedin’ age). The trailer is to be released on Monday.

With luck G:A will pick up the tone of the original, something that G2 failed at and G:2016 utterly failed to even try to do. Ghostbusters was not at its heart a comedy, certainly not a slapstick one; it was very much a Lovecraftian horrorshow with comedy expertly tacked onto it by people who were experts at it and who knew what they were doing. Given that one of the kids is played by “Stranger Things/It” alum Finn Wolfhard, it certain seems not unlikely that they’ll try to do it right. Some of the images released seem to back that hope up. But we’ll have to wait until summer to know for sure… unless, of course revelations are made before then that the lessons of G:2016 were not learned.