The fourth film in the Ghostbusters franchise, Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a supernatural comedy, starring Carrie Coon, Finn Wolfhard, Mckenna Grace, and Paul Rudd, along with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson, Sigourney Weaver, and Annie Potts – characters from the original movies.
This film is the direct sequel to Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) and is set thirty years after where the second movie left off. The film follows the story of a single mother and her two children who move to a small town in Oklahoma. Here they uncover their links with the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left them.
After being delayed four times since the July, 2020 date due to the COVI_-19 pandemic, Ghostbusters: Afterlife was screened unannounced on 23rd August, 2021 at the CinemaCon event in Los Angeles. It is scheduled to be released in the US on 19th November, 2021.
The third Ghostbusters installment had been in various stages of development right after Ghostbusters II. After the death of Harold Ramis in 2014, Sony instead produced a reboot version in 2016. But after the shameful performance of this movie, it became quite clear that a sequel to the original two movies was in order.
The new cast members were announced in July, 2019 and the original cast signed on about two months later. Filming continued between July to October, 2019 in Calgary, Alberta.
Ghostbusters: Afterlife Filming Locations
The new movie is situated far from the New York of the preceding two movies. This time the action takes place in the fictional town of Summerville, Oklahoma. Principal filming, under the working title of “Rust City,” began on 12th July, 2019 in Calgary and nearby areas.
Location shooting in surrounding communities such as Crossfield, Beiseker, and Drumheller took place between July and August, 2019 Filming was wrapped up after 68 days on 18th October, 2019. Here is all you need to know about the filming locations of this upcoming fest.
Beiseker, Alberta, Canada
Beiseker is a village in the Alberta province of Canada, and located approximately 70km north-east of Calgary. The village’s name came from Thomas Lincoln Beiseker (1866- 1941), a partner and vice-president of the Calgary Colonization Company, which had founded the village as an agricultural center.
Initial colonization began in 1908, and the village began to grow by 1910when a line of the Canadian Pacific Railway was created.
The scene in the movie where Callie (played by Carrie Coon) is talking to Mr. Grooberson (played by Paul Rudd) is shot in NG’s Café, a restaurant in the village of Beiseker. Another restaurant featured in the movie is the Apple Pie Café. Shooting in the village continued between July 18th to August 6th, 2019.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Principally shot in Calgary, the Ghostbusters Afterlife features several scenes from the city, especially Deerfoot City. This is an outdoor shopping centre that was originally opened in 1981. There used to be a Walmart inside the shopping center, but in the 2000s, Walmart closed its location within the mall and opened a standalone store immediately southeast of the building.
Macleod, Alberta, Canada
Fort Macleod, originally named Macleod, is a town in the southwest of the province of Alberta. It was founded as a North-West Mounted Police barracks, that had been founded to protect Canadian sovereignty in the West.
The town is named in honor of the NWMP Colonel James Macleod. It was known as the town of Macleod between 1892 and 1912. A lot of the actual ghost chasing sequences have been primarily shot here.
Other locations in Alberta, Canada
A few shorter sequences have been shot in smaller communities around Calgary like Dorothy, Munson, and Crossfield.