A Classic Ghostbuster Sidekick Suits Up For the First Time

Janine Melnitz is getting promoted.

The Ghostbusters’ beloved receptionist — whose well-known greeting on the crew’s cellphone (“Ghostbusters! Whaddya want?”) has change into considered one of most quoted traces in the franchise’s historical past — will apparently go well with up as a full-fledged Ghostbuster in the upcoming sequel Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire.

That a lot is evident from the new covers of the newest concern of Empire Magazine which might be coming subsequent month. One options the surviving unique Ghostbusters crew — Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, and Ernie Hudson — with Janine actress Annie Potts in a traditional Ghostbusters jumpsuit, subbing in for Egon Spengler, performed by the late, nice Harold Ramis.

The different cowl options the new Ghostbusters crew launched in 2022’s Ghostbusters: Afterlife: Gary Grooberson (Paul Rudd) and Callie (Carrie Coon), Trevor (Finn Wolfhard), and Phoebe Spengler (Mckenna Grace).

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Potts co-starred in Ghostbusters and Ghostbusters II and made a short cameo in Ghostbusters: Afterlife, when she checked in on the Spengler household at their new dwelling in Oklahoma. A post-credits scene noticed her again in New York City with Ernie Hudson’s Winston, who we discovered is now a profitable businessman. He buys the outdated Ghostbusters’ firehouse in an effort to refurbish it — little realizing one thing remains to be caught in the lure in the constructing’s basement, a plot level that may presumably get picked up in Frozen Empire.

Here is Frozen Empire’s official synopsis:

In Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, the Spengler household returns to the place it began – the iconic New York City firehouse – to crew up with the unique Ghostbusters, who’ve developed a top-secret analysis lab to take busting ghosts to the subsequent degree. But when the discovery of an historic artifact unleashes an evil power, Ghostbusters new and outdated should be a part of forces to guard their dwelling and save the world from a second Ice Age.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire is scheduled to open in theaters on March 22.