Ghostbusters Reunite for the 30th Anniversary

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8 casts are together again for Entertainment Weekly, but let's be honest: only one really matters, right?

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An unexpected surprise was waiting this morning as Entertainment Weekly revealed their latest cover featuring a reunion of the Boys in Grey in celebration of Ghostbusters' 30th Anniversary.

The cover image features Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver but curiously a video created in tandem for the Today Show features Bill Murray, Annie Potts, Ernie Hudson and Ivan Reitman.

Maybe Dan had some vodka to go and sell during the video or something, it's strange that he was around for the cover photo but not the interview (and that Annie and Ivan weren't on the cover). I'm wondering if maybe the reunion wasn't exactly a reunion and the cover was cobbled together from multiple shoots?

Regardless of those curiosities, the video is fun if brief. I had no idea that Al Roker was such a Ghostbusters fan and never picked up on any of his various references throughout the years. The article inside the issue will most likely go more in-depth and feature more photos of the cast reunion, and hopefully a longer interview with more Al Roker conversation exists and will be released somewhere down the line.

UPDATE: Apparently the whole gang was together for the photo shoot portion of the reunion if this photo released by Entertainment Weekly is to be believed:

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Alien Isolation Returns to LV-426

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In space, and also inside a spacesuit helmet, no one can hear you sqee. (Courtesy SEGA)

Video games have opened up an exciting new possibility to revisit films several years, even decades after their release. Bringing in the talent that was involved in a property from the 70s & 80s and being able to accurately recreate the look and the feel of the original film is proving to be a better venue for "sequelizing" than new films themselves. The Ghostbusters: Video Game still continues to be a favorite of mine, and could quite possibly remain the only true third sequel to the films.

Which is why it's exciting to track the upcoming SEGA Alien: Isolation which is taking the games away from the shoot-em' up free for all inspired by the Cameron movie, and putting the creepy and scary back into it.

Following in step with the Ghostbusters: The Video Game trend, SEGA has lined up the original cast of Ridley Scott's Alien to revisit their terror on the Nostromo. A Nostromo Edition of the game (which will be downloadable content) will be available for pre-order soon. Not as much as a sequel as a capsule of time within the movie, gamers will get to play "What If" scenarios that take place within the events of the first film. Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton and Yaphet Kotto return to reprise their roles (while Ian Holm is sitting out and John Hurt presumably isn't present because... well... stomach ache). 

A short trailer was released yesterday. Just be careful, I hear we're expendable.