Actress Sigourney Weaver Is Heading Back To The Ghostbusters Franchise After Landing An Appearance In The Upcoming Reboot.
The Alien star is the latest original castmember of the 1984 movie and its 1989 sequel to join director Paul Feig's all-female instalment, which features Kristen Wiig, Melissa MCCarthy, Leslie Jones and Kate MCKinnon.
Announcing the news on Twitter.com on Friday (25Sep15), the filmmaker writes, "Gang, trying to keep surprises but this is about to leak, so I'll tell you myself: the awesome Sigourney Weaver is going to be in our movie!"
Weaver played Ghostbusters client-turned-demon Dana Barrett in the first movie, although it is not clear if she will reprise the same role for the revamp.
Ernie Hudson and Annie Potts also recently signed on to make cameos in the new movie, reuniting them with former co-stars Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray, who filmed guest spots for Feig over the summer (15).
The only other original Ghostbuster, Harold Ramis, died in 2014.
Weaver previously joked about joining the new film's line-up after meeting Feig at the celebrations for U.S. comedy show Saturday Night Live's 40th Anniversary Special earlier this year (15).
"I offered (to make a cameo) when I met (Feig)... at the Saturday Night Live reunion," she explained. "He said, 'We'd love to have you in it'. I said, 'Well, only if I can play (green ghost) Slimer'. He said he didn't think that would work out."
The Ghostbusters reboot, which will also star Thor hunk Chris Hemsworth, is due to hit cinemas next July (16).
Harold Meyerowitz (Dustin Hoffman) is a celebrated New York artist, whose quick-temper and filter-less conversation...
A difficult movie to market, this isn't actually the BFG-style fantasy adventure it looks like....
Conor's life has never been easy, his mother is loving but any other family members...
A-list director Ron Howard worked with the surviving Beatles to assemble this engaging documentary, which...
It's been 13 years since the release of the Disney/Pixar hit Finding Nemo, and filmmaker...
It's been more than 30 years since the Ghostbusters first hit the big screen with...
Ghostbusters is a new film for 2016 and is based on the 1984 film of...
Erin Gilbert is a brilliant quantum physicist and holds a high ranking lecturing position at...
This is a terrific small film about artificial intelligence wrapped within a much bigger, less...
Mankind has the potential to build wondrous things, yet it also truly fears what it...
Aside from impressive 21st century digital effects, this new take on the Moses story pales...
Director Ridley Scott (Alien, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven) talks about world of his new film,...