Ghostbusters: Afterlife Is Gonna Call Some Very Familiar Faces

Murray is the only one of the original crew to appear, in any form, in the new trailer. While we don't actually see him, he can be heard in the trailer's narration, a clip from the original 1984 Ghostbusters. "Call it fate. Call it luck. Call it karma. I believe that everything happens for a reason," he says.

Aykroyd is joining his old co-stars for appearances in Afterlife, although the exact details of their roles haven't been revealed yet.

"We've shot our part—myself, Murray, Sigourney, and Annie Potts," Akroyd told The Greg Hill Show, according to Gizmodo. "And it was really exciting working on this new idea and new take on the story which Jason, who's a really incredible, fine filmmaker came up with."

Great news — Hudson will return too, meaning that all three of the surviving original Ghostbusters will be in the movie. The news of Hudson's return came in an unexpected and low-key way: he filmed a video on the celebrity-appearance platform Cameo in which he revealed that he was shooting the new Ghostbusters flick at that time.

Ramis is the only one of the original Ghostbusters not to return for the new movie, and there's a real-life reason: Ramis died in 2014, at the age of 69, after complications from an autoimmune disease. His character, however, plays a crucial (albeit posthumous) role in the movie, since the protagonists of Afterlife are his secret daughter and her two children.